Palestinian protest Lebanon 2012

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A Palestinian boy carries a toy gun during a rally by Sunni Muslim group Jamaa Islamiya against the ongoing Israeli occupation of Gaza outside the offices of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) in the Lebanese capital of Beirut in November 2012.

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