![Dina (R), a nine-year-old Palestinian girl, cries as her father Saleh Kostero puts his arms around her and her cousin Halla (L) during the demolition of their house in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Beit Hanina February 5, 2013. A statement from the Jerusalem Municipality said there was a court order for the demolition of the house, which was built without a permit in an open landscape area where construction is forbidden. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS CONSTRUCTIO](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/02/RTR3DDSY.jpg/RTR3DDSY.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=oMy2ohuJ)
Dalia Hatuqa is a contributing writer for Al-Monitor's Palestine Pulse. A print and broadcast journalist based in the West Bank, she writes about politics, the economy, culture, art and design. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Foreign Policy and the Christian Science Monitor, and she is a regular contributor to The Economist's Prospero blog, Al Jazeera and The National (UAE). On Twitter: @daliahatuqa
![Dina (R), a nine-year-old Palestinian girl, cries as her father Saleh Kostero puts his arms around her and her cousin Halla (L) during the demolition of their house in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Beit Hanina February 5, 2013. A statement from the Jerusalem Municipality said there was a court order for the demolition of the house, which was built without a permit in an open landscape area where construction is forbidden. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS CONSTRUCTIO](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/02/RTR3DDSY.jpg/RTR3DDSY.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=oMy2ohuJ)
![An Israeli police officer stands in front of Palestinian and foreign protesters gesturing from inside a vehicle after they were detained in an area known as "E1", which connects the two parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank outside Arab suburbs of East Jerusalem January 15, 2013. Israeli police, using stun grenades, blocked about 50 Palestinian activists who tried on Tuesday to reoccupy tents they pitched last week on a patch of West Bank land which Israel wants for Jewish settlements. REUTERS/Ammar Awad](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/02/RTR3CHP4.jpg/RTR3CHP4.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=alIS6BOH)
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![Paul Hansen of Sweden, a photographer working for the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, poses holding his picture that won the World Press Photo of the year for 2012, at Dagens Nyheter's office in Stockholm February 15, 2013. The photograph, which Hansen took on November 20, 2012, shows a group of men carrying the bodies of two dead children, who were killed in an Israeli missile strike on Gaza City, and won the top World Press Photo prize on Friday. REUTERS/Fredrik Sandberg/Scanpix (SWEDEN - Tags: ME](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/02/RTR3DTUC.jpg/RTR3DTUC.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=dTrRLaEt)
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![Palestinians show their ID cards to Israeli police inside a bus in Jerusalem August 12, 2004. Investigators were still examining if members of a militant cell which bombed a West Bank checkpoint Wednesday were still at large. The blast killed two Palestinians and wounded 16 people. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen GCM/SM - RTR8GY0](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/02/RTR8GY0.jpg/RTR8GY0.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=8P1aSZlS)
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![Palestinian first-graders sit with their schoolbooks during class in the West Bank city of Ramallah February 4, 2013. Israelis and Palestinians depict each other in schoolbooks as an enemy and largely deny their adversary's history and existence, according to a U.S. government-funded study published on Monday. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS) - RTR3DCHK](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/02/RTR3DCHK.jpg/RTR3DCHK.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=m0SeOL41)
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![A stone-throwing Palestinian protester runs near an Israeli border police vehicle during clashes at a weekly protest against the nearby Jewish settlement of Kdumim, in the West Bank village of Kfar Kadum, near Nablus January 25, 2013. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3CXSG](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/01/RTR3CXSG.jpg/RTR3CXSG.jpg?h=03a46229&itok=pfmv7r46)
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![Volunteers harvest Chardonnay grapes at Ferency family's vineyard near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Bat Ayin, south of Bethlehem August 20, 2012. Established in 1993, Ferency's winery produces some 6,500 bottles of kosher wine a year using organically grown grapes. REUTERS/Nir Elias (WEST BANK - Tags: FOOD AGRICULTURE)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/01/1-RTR36ZIJ.jpg/1-RTR36ZIJ.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=KV17J5Aj)
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![Palestinians, together with Israeli and foreign activists, stand near newly-erected tents in an area known as E1, near Jerusalem January 12, 2013. Palestinians from villages in the occupied West Bank near Jerusalem pitched tents on Friday on the land Israel has earmarked for a new urban settlement, looking to preserve the area for an independent Palestinian state. REUTER/Baz Ratner (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/01/RTR3CD0D.jpg/RTR3CD0D.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=fBN580_I)
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![Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks inside a free-electron laser (FEL) during a visit at the Ariel University Centre in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel January 8, 2013. Israel upgraded the Ariel campus to a university last month, a move that has put the school at the centre of a debate at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: how the settlements will figure in defining a future Palestinian state. REUTERS/Dan Balilty/Pool (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/01/RTR3C7KP-002.jpg/RTR3C7KP-002.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=fITS_zhA)
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![A Palestinian worker picks cucumbers growing in a greenhouse to be sold in a local market in the West bank city of Jenin March 6, 2012. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (WEST BANK - Tags: AGRICULTURE SOCIETY FOOD)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/01/RTR2YXGY.jpg/RTR2YXGY.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=ye8oiGw1)
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![A crane lifts a concrete block for the construction of a section of the controversial Israeli barrier in Shuafat refugee camp in the West Bank near Jerusalem December 5, 2012. Israel moved forward on Wednesday with plans to build some 3,000 settler homes in one of the most sensitive areas of the occupied West Bank, the E1 corridor near Jerusalem, in defiance of international protests. Pisgat Zeev, in an area Israel annexed to Jerusalem after capturing it in the 1967 Middle East war, is seen in the back. REU](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2012/q4/RTR3B8LJ-001.jpg/RTR3B8LJ-001.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=OUivj9SZ)
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![Palestinians surround a cart carrying a wooden statue of baby Jesus before a march in the West Bank town of Bethlehem December 20, 2012, ahead of Christmas. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK - Tags: RELIGION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2012/q4/1-RTR3BS96%20%281%29.jpg/1-RTR3BS96%20%281%29.jpg?itok=ufMq4O3u)
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