For this installment of Worldview: Daily Life, we focus on Palestine.
From a woman picking olives from her olive groves in the West Bank, to a family sheltering themselves from heavy rain in Gaza City, our photographers capture Palestine's everyday life.
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An elderly Palestinian woman of the Hawamdeih family prepares dry yogurt outside her cave on a mountain in the West Bank area of Ghwain, south of Hebron, Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Around 120 members of the Hawamdeih family live in caves, making their living by selling dairy products produced from their livestock. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Magnets for sale are displayed on the car of a Palestinian man at the Kalandia checkpoint, between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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A Palestinian man prays at a mosque in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, July 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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A Palestinian sheperd and his livestock are seen on a mountain on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Palestinian women carry stacks of straw left after the wheat harvest in their field on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, June 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Palestinian boys stand lined up and chant as they exercise on the beach, during a Hamas summer camp in Gaza City, Monday, June 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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** FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS ** FILE - Palestinian bride Kholood Al Zaaneen sits inside a tent built after her family's house was destroyed during Israel's latest military offensive in Gaza, during her wedding ceremony in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, in this July 22, 2009 file photo. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)
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A Palestinian woman picks olives from from her olive groves in the West Bank village of Qariout, near Nablus, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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A Palestinian farmer takes a break to smoke a cigarette as he harvests corn in Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, May 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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Palestinian Umm Eyad, 45, pours olives from a bucket she picked before sorting out the leaves, during the harvest on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Palestinians began the annual harvest of olives, a staple for many local farmers that also use them to make oil. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Two Palestinians ride horses, background, while sheep graze in the evacuated Jewish settlement of Netzarim, south of Gaza City, Tuesday, April 12, 2011. The United Nations says the Palestinian government in the West Bank has successfully built some institutions and public services that are required for a future state. But it also says the Palestinian Authority can only go so far in efforts at state-building without resolving its conflict with Israel and the division with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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A Palestinian worker in a family owned workshop that makes checkered head scarves, or keffiyehs, works a loom, in the West Bank city of Hebron, Wednesday, July 13, 2011.(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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Palestinians work to maintain "The dome" mosque in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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Palestinians gather on the rooftop of a building on which construction was halted and which was bombed in January 2009 during Israel's military offensive in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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Ismail, a Palestinian who lives near the evacuated Jewish settlement of Netzarim, south of Gaza City, untangles a net to trap migratory birds, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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Palestinian children leave school for the day in Gaza City, Saturday, May 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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A cat sleeps next a Kalashnikov weapon on a Hamas security check point in Gaza City, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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Palestinian girl reads the Holly Quran in the first of Shaban month in the West Bank city of Nablus , Palestine, Sunday, June 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)
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Naeema Abu Shaweesh, 30, showers her children outside their home in Gaza City, Sunday, June 15, 2014. The extended Abu Shaweesh family of 14 people live in a makeshift house made from scrap wood, salvaged concrete bricks and corrugated aluminum. They do not have any source of income. According to reports from human rights organizations, more than 70 per cent of Gaza's population live below the poverty line. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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A Palestinian woman sorts olives during the olive harvest in the West Bank village of Kabatyeh, near Jenin, Monday, Oct. 8, 2012. Palestinians began to harvest olives in October, a staple for many local farmers that also use them to make oil. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)
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A Palestinian farm worker climbs a palm tree to pick dates on a farm in Deir El Balah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. The harvesting season for dates usually starts at the beginning of October, after the first rain. The community of Deir El Balah takes its name from the word "balah", an Arabic word for dates. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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A Palestinian family covers themselves from rain at the Gaza port in Gaza City, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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