Anger and frustration are everyday staples in Gaza and are most evident during the weekly protests following Friday prayers. Members of Al Aqsa Martyr%u2019s Brigade march through the streets of Jabalya, one of Gaza%u2019s many refugee camps.

Traumatized and shell shocked children in the village of Aitaroun wait in a mini van in an effort to escape war shattered southern Lebanon during the 2006 war. A letup in air attacks by the Israelis enabled vehicles to finally access many villages after three weeks of fighting. Living conditions were horrible for the civilian population with no humanitarian aid getting in due to Israeli air attacks on vehicles.

Comforted by a friend in the morgue of Beith Hanoun hospital, a weeping man breaks down after seeing the body of his brother, shot by Israeli snipers.

sraeli soldiers attempt to evict an old man and his family from their home in Biddu, to make way for the bulldozers to demolish their home so a massive barrier wall may be built. The wall, according to Israeli authorities, has cut down the number of suicide bombers entering Israel to nearly zero.

A building in the center of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre was destroyed by Israeli warplanes. There were 16 injuries in the attack on what is believed to be a community center or offices affiliated with Hezbollah. Numerous apartments and structures nearby were severely damaged. A man swats at flames with a rag minutes after the blast.

The ruins of the Jenin refugee camp loom above a man during the early morning hours. The center of the camp was utterly destroyed by fighting between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli soldiers. Bulldozers then came in and demolished most of the camp's structures.

Ismail Rhatib Al-Massri, 30, was killed by Israeli troops while trying to plant an anti-tank mine. Al-Massri's wife Hafiza, center, is comforted by relatives as she mourns the death of her husband and father to their 7 children. Hamas has seen a drop in popularity within Gaza.

Palestinian president and icon Yasser Arafat was flown into his battle scarred headquarters in Ramallah to be buried following a state ceremony in Cairo. Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered to pay their respects to the iconic leader who never saw his dream of a Palestinian state fulfilled.

Near Abu Dis in Eastern Jerusalem the wall separating the West Bank from Israel reaches a height of 8 meters and construction of new Jewish settlements at its base has begun.

Before the US invasion Saddam Hussein's ubiquitous portraits were paraded about in arranged show of support. This man took his portrait off his living room wall to express his support for the regime during a government arranged rally in Baghdad.

Families pick over freshly fallen piles of garbage at Al Ma'amer, a garbage field 30 miles outside of Baghdad. The Shiite population of Iraq lives largely in poverty. They have seen their fortunes rise somewhat since the fall of Hussein, a Sunni who frequently persecuted and imprisoned the Shia.

Intellectuals and writers gather at a cafe in central Baghdad prior to the US invasion. Many were apprehensive to give their opinions on the looming US invasion as Hussein's spy apparatus was ever present throughout the Iraqi capital.

Shiites were long barred from practicing and observing their religious holidays. After Hussein's fall there was a massive celebration of the Ashura holiday. Two pilgrims, with flags in hand, make the walk from Baghdad to the city of Karbala.

Lights adorn the minarets of the Kadhimiya Shrine in Baghdad for the celebration of the Islamic New Year

A prayer is recited over the body of 19 year-old Hashim Jalil, who was shot through the head by an American sniper in Sadr City in Baghdad. His body was being washed in preperation for his burial.

Um Daoud walks past some of the members of her family, 10 in all, who were to be buried at the cemetery in Najaf after they were killed by a US missile in the southern city of Nasiriya. Included in the carnage was her 6 year-old nephew.

A tattered martyr's poster flaps in the breeze in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. The holy city was the seen of ferocious fighting during the 2002 incursions.

Locals in the city of Tyre try to extinguish the flames of a bombed out building during the Israeli/Hezbollah war of 2006. Tensions have been ratcheted up once again along Israel's northern border. Recent events in Syria, a supporter of Hezbollah, have the region in flux.

Baghdad's Sadoun neighborhood was once a center for nightlife, bars and cabarets. While those have all vanished and the once luxurious nightspot has fallen on hard times, movie houses still abound showing B films from both the US and Europe.

The Ayyad family has been completely separated from the rest of their family by the Israeli barrier wall near the city of Qualquilya. In addition Nasser, right, fears the psychological effects the wall will have on his two children.

A refugee boy skips down the hallway of an abandoned stadium in Kirkuk, Iraq. The city has become an epicenter for Arab and Kurdish tensions fueled by a desire to control the oil rich region.

A woman holds her sickly daughter at a refugee camp outside of Kirkuk, Iraq. Health care was woefully inadequate in the days after the US occupation and still today, the violence plagued city has a hard time getting care to many of the outlying areas.

Chaos enveloped Egypt in the wake of massive protests and widespread violence against the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. Protesters continued to defy the government imposed curfew and spent nights camped out in Tahir Square.

Fighting and clashes broke out around Tharir Square between Mubarak supporters and detractors. There were hundreds of injuries as the clashes went on for hours. Pro Mubarak supporters rallied in full force in the middle class neighborhood of Muhandessin prior to the clashes.

Pro Mubarak supporters, some riding camels and horses rallied in full force in the middle class neighborhood of Muhandessin prior to the clashes. The riders rode into Tharir Square sparking two days of violence.

Fighting and clashes continued for a second day around Tahrir Square between Mubarak supporters and detractors. There were hundreds of injuries as the clashes went on for hours. Anti-regime protesters hurled rocks at pro Mubarak supporters from atop a building. The burned out building that housed Mubarak's party headquarters is at rear.

The injured, mostly younger men, were hurried away to makeshift clinics for first aid. Some returned to the fighting which went on for three days.

Some of Cairo's major intersections became scenes of medieval battles as the two sides waged war on each other with stones, molotov cocktails and bricks.

Protesters erupt in joy as the vice president announces that Mubarak will step down, ending 30 years of autocratic rule.

A weeping man holds up a newspaper with photographs of those killed during the early days of clashes between protesters and police in Cairo. Mubarak fell in 18 days.

Anti-regime protesters continued to occupy Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo. The atmosphere was more festive than in days past as enormous crowds filled the square. A pro-Mubarak supporter who made his way into the center of a massive anti-regime crowd is silenced after shouting his support for the beleagured president.

Protesters, furious with President Hosni Mubarak's refusal to resign his post, spread their protests across downtown Cairo. Thousands gathered in front of the state's television building on Friday after mid day prayers. Unlike neighboring Libya, Egypt has a strong sense of nationalistic pride.

Jubilation filled the throngs of protesters that gathered in Tahrir Square to celebrate the fall of the Mubarak regime. The youth of Egypt felt empowered by their ability to change the course of their nation's history. How much of the region will follow their lead?