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Israeli soldiers guard tens of Israeli settlers and ultra-Orthodox Jews as they pay a visit to the Jewish shrine of Atnaeil Ben Kinaz in a Palestinian neighbourhood in the divided city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank to pray at the sacred tomb on the last day of the Hannukah holiday on December 17, 2009. The holiday commemorates the rededication of the holy temple in Jerusalem after the Jews' 165 B.C. victory over the Hellenist Syrians when Antiochus, the Greek King of Syria, outlawed Jewish rituals and ordered the Jews to worship Greek gods. Feelings run high in Hebron, where political and religious strife is part of daily life as several hundred Jewish settlers live in an enclave in the Old City, protected by the Israeli army, amid 150,000 Palestinians. Photo by Najeh Hashlamoun
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