12 year-old Azez Tambora collects plastics and metals from piles of waste in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, 13 June 2013. Reports state that children are employed to search the steets for scrap metal and plastic to sell, earning a daily rate of approximately 2.5 US dollars a day. EPA/ALI ALI
A Palestinian child plays with a chick outside the family tent in a poverty-stricken quarter of the town of Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, 26 June 2013. EPA/ALI ALI
Palestinian girls inside their family's home during a power cut in the Bait Lahiya North Gaza Strip on 12 September 2013. Reports state that the power is cut for 12 hours everyday in North Gaza Strip. EPA/ALI ALI
A young wedding guest is pictured on the wedding party day of young groom Ahmed Soboh, 15, and his bride Tala, 14, in the Beit Lahiya town, northern Gaza Strip, 24 September 2013. Sometimes young Muslim brides and grooms are married, though this is not commonplace. EPA/ALI ALI
A slow exposure photograph shows Palestinian militants, members of the Ezz Al-Din Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, participating in a march along the streets of the Gaza Strip, 04 September 2013. EPA/ALI ALI
A Palestinian refugee boy eats bread in a poverty-stricken quarter of the town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, 28 April 2013. Reports state that an increasing number of Gazan families are reportedly falling further into poverty, with unemployment rates at over 30 per cent according to 2012 estimates EPA/ALI ALI
Palestinian children play inside their family house during the holy month of Ramadan in Al-Zaiton town, central Gaza Strip, 26 July 2013. Muslims around the world are observing the holy fasting month of Ramadan in which they refrain from eating, drinking, sex and smoking from dawn to dusk. EPA/ALI ALI
A Palestinian girl holds a toy gun outside her home while playing with other children in the east of Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, 25 April 2013. EPA/ALI ALI
Palestinian refugee girl sleeps outside her family home in a poverty-stricken quarter of the town of Al-Zaiton, Central Gaza Strip, 05 September 2013. EPA/ALI ALI
Palestinian militants from Islamic Jihad organization pray during the night of 28th day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan while patroling at the border between Israel and Gaza in the North Gaza Strip, 06 August 2013. The Islamic Jihad militants guard along all the border of the Gaza strip every night in anticipation of any advance of Israeli troops into the Gaza Strip. EPA/ALI ALI
Palestinians attend at a horse race and show in the North of the Gaza Strip, 01 September 2013. Every other Sunday Palestinians gather to race and show off their horses. A race is held between six horses and the winner gets a small money prize but mostly participants are not after the prize alone - a winning horse increases both fame and a horse's value. EPA/ALI ALI
Palestinian men work inside a smuggling tunnel which connects the Gaza Strip and Egypt in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, 10 September 2013. Reports state that the Egyptian military has moved to close the smuggling tunnels into the Gaza Strip. EPA/ALI ALI
Palestinian men work at a smuggling tunnel which connects the Gaza Strip and Egypt in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, 10 September 2013. Reports state that the Egyptian military has moved to close the smuggling tunnels into the Gaza Strip. EPA/ALI ALI
Palestinian children sit beside a fire in a garage on a winter day in Jabaliya refugee camp, Gaza Strip, 08 January 2013. EPA/ALI ALI