A woman walks past a giant portrait of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at the Palestinian Authority's Muqataa headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on November 8, 2009, three days before the fifth anniversary of Arafat's mysterious death in a Paris hospital on November 11, 2004. Five years have passed, yet the mystery surrounding Arafat's dramatic demise seems just as impenetrable, with many senior officials still holding strong to the belief their leader was poisoned. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 week ago

A woman walks past a giant portrait of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at the Palestinian Authority's Muqataa headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on November 8, 2009, three days before the fifth anniversary of Arafat's mysterious death in a Paris hospital on November 11, 2004. Five years have passed, yet the mystery surrounding Arafat's dramatic demise seems just as impenetrable, with many senior officials still holding strong to the belief their leader was poisoned.

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  2. Palestinian children attend a mock trial of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmud Abbas over his initial failure to press for the adoption of the UN Goldstone report, in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, on October 12, 2009. Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas defended his controversial decision to support deferring a vote on a damning Gaza war report at the UN Human Rights Council. In a televised address, the embattled president also accused the rival Hamas movement of leading the storm of criticism at the decision as a means to postpone a long-delayed Palestinian reconciliation deal. Abbas said the Palestinian delegation at the Geneva-based council backed the October 2 postponement of a vote on the so-called Goldstone report which was highly critical of Israel in order to gather maximum support for the measure.
  3. Palestinian children attend a mock trial of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmud Abbas over his initial failure to press for the adoption of the UN Goldstone report, in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, on October 12, 2009. Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas defended his controversial decision to support deferring a vote on a damning Gaza war report at the UN Human Rights Council. In a televised address, the embattled president also accused the rival Hamas movement of leading the storm of criticism at the decision as a means to postpone a long-delayed Palestinian reconciliation deal. Abbas said the Palestinian delegation at the Geneva-based council backed the October 2 postponement of a vote on the so-called Goldstone report which was highly critical of Israel in order to gather maximum support for the measure.
  4. In this photo released by the Palestinian Authority, U.S. Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, left, shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, at Abbas' headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009. In Jerusalem, there were scattered clashes Friday in the city between police and Muslim protesters. Several protesters and policemen were lightly hurt. The friction, in which no one has been seriously injured, appears to have been sparked by rumors among Palestinians about an attempt by Jewish extremists to harm the Islamic holy sites in the compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.
  5. Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas speaks to media after a meeting with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa on October 4, 2009. Abbas, whose authority has faced a backlash at home and a split among Arab ranks after it backed a UN decision to delay a vote on a report accusing Israel of war crimes in the Gaza Strip, is on an official visit to Yemen.
  6. Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas attends an executive committee meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah on September 30, 2009. Rival Palestinian factions will meet in Egypt in October for talks aimed at reaching a national reconciliation agreement, Hamas supremo leader Khaled Meshaal said in Cairo on September 28. The exiled leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement was in Cairo for talks with officials over Egyptian proposals to reconcile Hamas with the secular Fatah party of president Mahmud Abbas.
  7. A Palestinian youth peeps through a hole on the other side of Israel's separation barrier during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village Nilin on November 20, 2009. The Israeli army arrested five members of the Palestinian Authority's intelligence services in the northern West Bank city of Salfit, Palestinian security sources said.
  8. Palestinian youths carry a man wounded by a live bullet during clashes with Israeli soldiers near Israel�s separation barrier in the West Bank village Nilin on November 20, 2009. The Israeli army arrested five members of the Palestinian Authority's intelligence services in the northern West Bank city of Salfit, Palestinian security sources said.
  9. Palestinian carry pictures of late leader Yasser Arafat, right, late George Habash, center, founder of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, as they march to the Sabra and Shatila mass graves in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. Palestinians in Lebanon observed the 27th anniversary of one of their darkest episodes _ the massacre in the Beirut camps of Sabra and Shatila by Israeli-backed Christian militiamen in which between 1,200 and 1,400 people died, by Lebanese Red Cross count.
  10. A member of the Palestinian security forces stands guard near a Yasser Arafat impersonator during a rally, marking a symbolic declaration of independence, in the West Bank city of Nablus November 19, 2009. Sunday marked the anniversary of the symbolic November 15, 1988 declaration of independence by the late Palestinian leader Arafat.
  11. A Palestinian youth holds a poster that depicts late leader Yasser Arafat during a rally, marking a symbolic declaration of independence, in the West Bank city of Nablus November 19, 2009. Sunday marked the anniversary of the symbolic November 15, 1988 declaration of independence by the late Palestinian leader Arafat.
  12. A member of the Palestinian security forces stands guard near a Yasser Arafat impersonator during a rally, marking a symbolic declaration of independence, in the West Bank city of Nablus November 19, 2009. Sunday marked the anniversary of the symbolic November 15, 1988 declaration of independence by the late Palestinian leader Arafat.
  13. Members of the Palestinian Security forces ride on a vehicle past banners depicting President Mahmoud Abbas and the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (top R) during a march, marking a symbolic declaration of independence, in the West Bank city of Hebron November 16, 2009. Sunday marked the anniversary of the symbolic November 15, 1988 declaration of independence by Arafat.
  14. A Palestinian boy stands nears poster of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a rally, marking a symbolic declaration of independence, in the West Bank village of Beit Furiq near Nablus November 15, 2009. Sunday is the anniversary of the symbolic November 15, 1988 declaration of independence by the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
  15. A Palestinian girl takes part in a rally, marking a symbolic declaration of independence, in the West Bank village of Beit Furiq near Nablus November 15, 2009. Sunday is the anniversary of the symbolic November 15, 1988 declaration of independence by the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
  16. Palestinian men perform a traditional dance on November 15, 2009 under a banner bearing pictures of their late leader Yasser Arafat (R) and his successor, the current Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas, in the West Bank village of Beit Furik, near Nablus, during celebrations of the symbolic declaration of independence. The Palestinians intend to ask the UN Security Council to recognise their independence, a senior official said amid mounting frustration with the stalled peace process. In reaction, Israeli hardline Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau said that if the Palestinians took unilateral steps, Israel should annex the parts of the West Bank that contain major Jewish settlement blocs.

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