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Rebecca George visits the Martyr’s Cemetery outside Dheishe Refugee Camp on the first morning of Eid Al-Fitr, when nearly 200 Palestinians from the Bethlehem area came to visit the graves of deceased relatives and loved ones who have been killed during the conflict with Israel.

Amazing photographs from Karam Saleem who documents the second Friday of Ramadan in Palestine, which saw more than 350,000 Palestinians descend onto Al Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem. Many who made the trip took advantage of eased restrictions by Israeli authorities on those living in the West Bank. But for those unable to cross legally, smugglers organize locations along the separation wall for Palestinians to sneak in.

Baharka IDP camp, Iraq, holds over 1,000 displaced Iraqi families. However in one small section, 18 Palestinian refugee families currently reside. Their displacement began 67 years ago with the Nakba, and has continued to 2015 – all the families have fled from ISIS within the last year. For some of the older Palestinian refugees this is their fifth refugee camp in their lifetime, for the younger generation it is their first. For all however, the plight of being a Palestinian refugee doesn’t appear to have an end in sight.