[Nablus, November 19. Image via Getty.]

Palestinian girls take part in a rally on November 19, 2009 in the West Bank city of Nablus in support of Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas and his government's intention to ask the UN Security Council to recognise an independent Palestinian state. Abbas said on November 17 that plans to seek international recognition of an independent Palestinian state has the backing of Arab countries and is not a 'unilateral decision.' Speaking to reporters in Cairo after meeting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Abbas said the impasse in negotiations with Israel left him no option but to ask for a UN endorsement of an independent state. AFP PHOTO/JAAFAR ASHTIYEH (Photo credit should read JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP/Getty Images)

[Hebron, West Bank; October 18. Image via Getty]

One of 30 women cyclists from Europe, Asia and the Arab world flashes the v-sign for victory with a Palestinian flag fixed on her bicycle upon the group's arrival in the flashpoint West Bank city Hebron on October 18, 2009. The 'Women for Peace' have peddled through Lebanon, Syria and Jordan before crossing into the Palestinian territories, in a campaign for regional peace. AFP PHOTO / HAZEM BADER (Photo credit should read HAZEM BADER/AFP/Getty Images)

[Abu Dis, West Bank; October 14. Image via Getty]

A Palestinian woman gathers fallen olives in the West Bank town of Abu Dis on October 14, 2009. For Palestinians, olives are an important agricultural product and their trees symbolise their attachment to the land. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD GHARABLI (Photo credit should read AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images)

[Jerusalem, October 6. Image via Getty]

A Palestinian school girl walks past Israeli border policemen deployed in the Arab east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud on October 6, 2009. Israeli police deployed in force throughout Jerusalem amid an annual march and as tensions simmered in the Holy City after two days of clashes with Palestinian youths. AFP PHOTO/JONATHAN NACKSTRAND (Photo credit should read JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images)

[Gaza City, October 5. Image via Getty]

A Palestinian woman holds a portrait of a loved one as she takes part in a protest in Gaza City calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails on October 5, 2009. The release of 19 Palestinian women prisoners in exchange for a brief video clip of a captured Israeli soldier has handed a much-need victory to the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, analysts said. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

[Bethlehem, September 30. Image via Getty]

Palestinian mother of Sana'a Salah holds her daughter's portrait after hearing news of her release on September 30, 2009 in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Sana'a Salah is among the 20 Palestinian women prisoners Israel will free in return for a video of Gilad Shalit held in Gaza since June 2006, in a breakthrough in nearly three years of indirect talks with Hamas. AFP PHOTO/MUSA AL-SHAER (Photo credit should read MUSA AL-SHAER/AFP/Getty Images)

[Jenin, West Bank; September 15. Image via Getty]

Muslim Palestinian women walk past dummies at a street market in Jenin, northern West Bank on September 15, 2009 ahead of the Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting holy month of Ramadan. AFP PHOTO/SAIF DAHLAH (Photo credit should read SAIF DAHLAH/AFP/Getty Images)

[East Jerusalem, August 9. Image via Getty]

A Palestinian woman flashes the victory sign in front of a house that was evicted from its Palestinian residents and where Jewish settlers live now, in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of Arab east Jerusalem on August 9, 2009. Israeli police evicted last week two Palestinian families from their homes in the sensitive neighbourhood, defying international protests over Jewish settlement activity in the area. An Israeli court had ordered the eviction of the 53 Palestinians, including 19 minors, following an appeal by the Nahalat Shimon International settler group which claimed Jewish settlers have title deeds for the properties, despite UN and Palestinian denials. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD GHARABLI (Photo credit should read AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images)

[Washington, D.C., July 29. Image via Getty]

Bikini-clad members of 'Code Pink' smeared in 'mud' protest Ahava products in Washington, DC, on July 29, 2009. Ahava, a cosmeceutical company based in Israel that manufactures skin-care products from the Dead Sea, promises �Beauty Secrets from the Dead Sea.� According to Code Pink, the products actually come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the Occupied Territory of the Palestinian West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem. AFP PHOTO/Karen BLEIER (Photo credit should read KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images)

[Givat Tzuria, West Bank; July 27. Image via Getty]

An Israeli settler girl walks up to the illegal outpost of Givat Tzuria, located north of the West Bank Palestinian city of Tulkarem, on July 27, 2009. Several hundred ultra-nationalist Israelis demonstrated in Jerusalem to protest US pressure to freeze construction activity in settlements in the Israeli occupied West Bank. AFP PHOTO/DAVID FURST (Photo credit should read DAVID FURST/AFP/Getty Images)

[Jabalia, Gaza Strip; July 21. Image via Getty]

Palestinian children play at the doorstep of their home in the northern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Jabalia on July 21, 2009. The United Nation says more than half of residents in the Gaza Strip are living under the poverty line. Living conditions in Gaza have deteriorated because of the three-year long Israeli blockade imposed by Israel against the territory�s Hamas rulers. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

[Bilin, West Bank; July 17. Image via Getty]

A Palestinian flag is painted on the face of a girl during a protest in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, on July 17, 2009 against Israel's controversial separation barrier. The barrier is made up of 400 kilometres (260 miles) of concrete walls, fences and closed roads, with 87 percent located inside the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including annexed east Jerusalem, according to UN figures. AFP PHOTO/ABBAS MOMANI (Photo credit should read ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/Getty Images)

[Beit Lahia, Gaza; July 15. Image via Getty]

Palestinian children pose for a picture near a building destroyed during Israel's massive 22-day assault in the Gaza Strip last December-January on July 15, 2009 in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza. Israeli soldiers in the Gaza war were told to shoot first and worry about the consequences later, and used Palestinian civilians as human shields, an activist group's report said on July 15, 2009. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

[Maale Adumim, West Bank; July 12. Image via Getty]

MAALE ADUMIM, WEST BANK - JULY 12: English volunteer Hattie Miall shows her hands after preparing a mud floor in a school that Italian architect Valerio Marazzi is constructing out of old tyres and mud for children of the Jahalin Palestinian Bedouin tribe on July 12, 2009 in the Judean Desert near the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank. As long as the Israeli army does not demolish the structure, which is being built without a permit by the Italian non-governmental organization Vento di Terra ('Wind of the Earth'), the children of the tribe's three encampments on the road between the Jordan Valley and Jerusalem will finally be able to attend classes without having to make the long and dangerous journeys to Jericho or Azariya. During the last two years, four children from the nomadic tribe have died on the dangerous paths and roads while the others have lost many school days due to poor road conditions, blockage of access roads by Israeli security fences, and the inability of the poverty-stricken families to pay the transportation costs. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)

[Gaza City, June 30. Image via Getty]

An elderly Palestinian woman stands at the entrance of her house in Gaza City, on June 30, 2009. Six months after Israel's 22-day military operation in Gaza, 1.5 million Palestinians remain trapped in rising poverty, unable to rebuild their lives, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on June 29. The people living there find themselves unable to rebuild their lives and are sliding ever deeper into despair,' a new report by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

[East Jerusalem, June 17. Image via Getty]

A Palestinian girl plays next to Israel's controversial separation barrier in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Beit Hanina in east Jerusalem on June 17, 2009. A Middle East peace deal is possible only if it is forced on Israelis and Palestinians by US-led efforts, one of Israel's best-known authors, David Grossman, has written as he hit out at a speech by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. AFP PHOTO/MENAHEM KAHANA (Photo credit should read MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)

[Israel, June 9. Image via Getty]

Israeli left-wing activists welcome Palestinian women after crossing into Israel from the Gaza Strip through the Erez crossing on June 9, 2009. Israel has faced growing international calls, including by main ally Washington, to lift the blockade on the impoverished territory where the vast majority of the 1.5 million population depends on foreign aid. The harsh embargo was slapped on Gaza after the Islamist Hamas movement seized control of the territory in June 2007. AFP PHOTO/DAVID BUIMOVITCH (Photo credit should read DAVID BUIMOVITCH/AFP/Getty Images)

[Jinasfut, West Bank; June 8. Image via Getty]

JINSAFUT, WEST BANK - JUNE 08: A Palestinian woman harvests her family's wheat on June 8, 2009 in their village of Jinsafut in the West Bank. US President Barack Obama�s Middle East envoy, George J. Mitchell, began his latest round of talks in the region echoing Washington's demand for 'immediate' peace talks between the Palestinians and Israel. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)

[Avigail, West Bank; June 2. Image via Getty]

A Jewish settler woman walks with her children in the outpost of Avigail in the southern occupied West Bank on June 2, 2009. The new US administration should respect understandings struck by its predecessor on settlements, an Israeli minister said after President Barack Obama vowed a more 'honest' tone with the Jewish state. AFP PHOTO/MENAHEM KAHANA (Photo credit should read MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)

[Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip; May 28. Image via Getty]

A Palestinian girl waves her national flag during a summer camp activity on the beach in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on May 28, 2009. Israel's recent war on Gaza brought the enclave to the brink of a catastrophe, Amnesty International said on May 28, also lambasting the two main Palestinian factions for human rights violations. AFP PHOTO/SAID KHATIB (Photo credit should read SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)