Month in pictures: June 2009

The below photographs are a selection of images from the month of June 2009. “The month in pictures” is an ongoing feature by The Electronic Intifada. If you have images documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, or of solidarity with Palestine, please email images and captions to photos A T electronicintifada D O T net.

Palestinian children play at the al-Qattan Recreation Centre for Children in Gaza City, 23 June. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)

A Palestinian municipal laborer works in a street in the West bank city of Tulkarem, 16 June. (Mouid Ashqar/MaanImages)

Palestinian lands burned by Israeli settlers in the Qalqiliya-Salfit area of the occupied West Bank, 2 June. (Anne Paq/ActiveStills)

Palestinians in Gaza City call for the release of prisoners held in Israeli jails, 29 June. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)

Israelis and Palestinian citizens of Israel demonstrate in Tel Aviv to mark 42 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 6 June. (Yotam Ronen/ActiveStills)

Palestinians on the beach during sunset in Gaza City, 27 June. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)

UN investigator Richard Goldstone, former chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, leads a team in Gaza to probe alleged violations of international law during Israel’s three-week assault on Gaza last winter, 1 June. (Hatem Omar/MaanImages)

Musa Silawi, 91, who witnessed an Israeli bombing of a mosque in January that killed 17 people, including his son and four other members of his extended family, attends the first day of public hearings headed by a UN human rights mission in Gaza Strip, 28 June. (United Nations)

Canadian journalist Naomi Klein stands near the wall in the West Bank village of Bilin where she reiterated her call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, 26 June. (Oren Ziv/ActiveStills)

Bees gather on a cup of juice in the West Bank village of al-Khader near Bethlehem, 26 June. (Haytham Othman/MaanImages)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, Syria, 20 June. (Omar Rashidi/MaanImages)

Palestinian students wait to take their first general secondary school exam in Gaza City, 8 June. (Hatem Omar/MaanImages)