A Bedouin boy searched for scrap material to collect in the wasteland in front of the Erez crossing point between Israel and the Gaza Strip on November 3, 2009. The large and abandoned area adjacent to the crossing point used to be a thriving industrial site where a large number of Palestinian workers were employed: after successive waves of unrest and after having been used as a deployment area by the Israeli Army, the area is now been cleared and sanitized. Getty Images logo Getty Images 27 months ago

A Bedouin boy searched for scrap material to collect in the wasteland in front of the Erez crossing point between Israel and the Gaza Strip on November 3, 2009. The large and abandoned area adjacent to the crossing point used to be a thriving industrial site where a large number of Palestinian workers were employed: after successive waves of unrest and after having been used as a deployment area by the Israeli Army, the area is now been cleared and sanitized.

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