Worldview: Palestine Daily Life

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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A Palestinian man prays at a mosque in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, July 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Naeema Abu Shaweesh, 30, showers her children outside their home in Gaza City, June 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Palestinian children leave school for the day in Gaza City, May 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A Palestinian farm worker climbs a palm tree to pick dates on a farm in Deir El Balah, southern Gaza Strip, Oct. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

A Palestinian woman sorts olives during the olive harvest in the West Bank village of Kabatyeh, near Jenin, Oct. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

A Palestinian woman picks olives from her olive groves in the West Bank village of Qariout, near Nablus on Nov. 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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, Sept. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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, on Aug. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A Palestinian girl reads the Quran in the first of Shaban month in the West Bank city of Nablus, Palestine on June 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

A Palestinian family covers themselves from rain at the Gaza port in Gaza City, Feb. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

A cat sleeps next to a Kalashnikov weapon on a Hamas security check point in Gaza City, Oct. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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 on Sept. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A Palestinian farmer takes a break to smoke a cigarette as he harvests corn in Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip, May 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

Palestinian women carry stacks of straw left after the wheat harvest in their field on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah, June 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Two Palestinians ride horses, background, while sheep graze in the evacuated Jewish settlement of Netzarim, south of Gaza City on April 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Palestinians work to maintain “The dome” mosque in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip on Sept. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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, July 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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, April 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Palestinian boys stand lined up and chant as they exercise on the beach, during a Hamas summer camp in Gaza City, June 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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 photo. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Ismail, a Palestinian who lives near the evacuated Jewish settlement of Netzarim, south of Gaza City, untangles a net to trap migratory birds on Sept. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A Palestinian shepherd and his livestock are seen on a mountain on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Feb. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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