State of Palestine. West Bank. Balata Camp. Palestinian refugees. A muslim retired soldier wearing a keffiyeh on his head stands in the courtyard of an UNRWA building and poses close to a wall where an anonymous graffiti is asking for a free Palestine state by any possible means, even by using weapons such as Kalashnikov. Balata Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp established in the northern West Bank in 1950, adjacent to the city of Nablus. It is the largest refugee camp in the West Bank....
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State of Palestine. West Bank. Balata Camp. Palestinian refugees. A muslim retired soldier wearing a keffiyeh on his head stands in the courtyard of an UNRWA building and poses close to a wall where an anonymous graffiti is asking for a free Palestine state by any possible means, even by using weapons such as Kalashnikov. Balata Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp established in the northern West Bank in 1950, adjacent to the city of Nablus. It is the largest refugee camp in the West Bank. Balata Camp is densely populated with 30,000 residents in an area of 0.25 square kilometers. In 1991, Balata Camp was living under Isreal's occupation and rules as part as the Occuppied Territories. In the 1980s and 1990s, Balata residents played a leading role in the uprisings known as the First Intifada and the Second Intifada. Balata Camp is since 1993 under palestinian authority, located in the A zone. The Palestinian National Authority (PA or PNA) was the interim self-government body established to govern Areas A and B of the West Bank as a consequence of the 1993 Oslo Accords. Following elections in 2006, its authority had extended only in areas A and B of the West Bank. Since January 2013, the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority uses the name State of Palestine on official documents. The Palestinian keffiyeh is a gender-neutral chequered black and white scarf that is usually worn around the neck or head. The Palestinian keffiyeh has become a symbol of Palestinian nationalism. The Palestinian keffiyeh is a gender-neutral chequered black and white scarf that is usually worn around the neck or head. The Palestinian keffiyeh has become a symbol of Palestinian nationalism. The AK-47 is a selective-fire, gas-operated 7.62×39mm assault rifle, first developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is officially known in the Soviet documentation as Avtomat Kalashnikova . It is also known as Kalashnikov, AK, or in Russian slang, Kalash. © 1991 Didier Ruef

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