Photos: Marco Longari named Best Photographer on the Wires 2012 by Time Magazine
December 20, 2012
An Egyptian girl waits with relatives queuing to vote at a polling station in central Cairo on a new constitution supported by the ruling Islamists but bitterly contested by a secular-leaning opposition on December 15, 2012. President Mohamed Morsi cast his ballot in a polling station close to his presidential palace in the capital, state television showed, but he made no comment to the media. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Christian Orthodox monk prays inside the Grotto at the Church of the Nativity in the biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem on January 6, 2012, as Orthodox Christmas celebrations kicked off in the traditional birthplace of Jesus to the sound of bagpipes and protests by Palestinians accusing church leaders of selling land to Israelis. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Egyptian demonstrators sit on a graffiti-covered wall during a lull in confrontations with riot police on February 6, 2012 outside Cairo's security headquarters. The United States must "re-evaluate" its ties with Egypt in response to Egypt's apparent plans to put dozens of pro-democracy activists, including 19 Americans, on trial, according to a US senator. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Standing next to a man selling cotton candy, an Egyptian demonstrator uses a protective mask against tear gas fired by riot police during confrontations outside Cairo's security headquarters on February 6, 2012, as clashes continued in the Egyptian capital in the wake of deadly football violence and amid calls by activists for civil disobedience in Egypt. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal looks on during the Foreign Affairs Ministers meeting on Syria in Cairo February 12, 2012 where the ministers mull their next move on Syria that a bloody 11-month crackdown has left thousands dead. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Egyptian riot policemen look at a hanged puppet, held up with a fishing rod by an anti-Hosni Mubarak demonstrator, outside the court in Cairo on February 22, 2012, as the landmark murder and corruption trial of the former president entered its final day of hearings, with the judge expected to announce the date of the verdict. Cameras are not allowed inside the courtroom and state television did not show Mubarak or the defendants arriving in court. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Egyptian anti-Hosni Mubarak demonstrators pose in front of a mock gallows whilst riot policeman provide security outside the court in Cairo on February 22, 2012, as the landmark murder and corruption trial of the former president entered its final day of hearings, with the judge expected to announce the date of the verdict. Cameras are not allowed inside the courtroom and state television did not show Mubarak or the defendants arriving in court. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Hanan Abu Nada, 28, a Palestinian lawyer from Gaza City, stands with her horse at the Al-Furusia riding centre in Gaza City on January 10, 2012. Opened since 2002 but under a new management for the past few months, the centre caters to a small number of women who practice horse riding despite the strict social and cultural norms in the Hamas-run strip. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Israeli soldiers rush to take position during clashes with Palestinian stone-throwers in Qalandia in the occupied West Bank, following a demonstration on May 4, 2012 in solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike to protest Israel's use of administrative detention orders, under which military courts can order individuals to be held without charge for periods of up to six months, which can be renewed indefinitely. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/GettyImages
Supporters of Mohammed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate in Egypt's presidential election, attend the party's last campaign rally in Cairo on May 20, 2012. Mohammed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate in Egypt's presidential election, is the Islamists' fallback representative after their deputy leader Khairat el-Shater was disqualified. But the powerful Islamist movement is throwing its entire formidable network of supporters behind the bearded and bespectacled engineer who was appointed last year as the head of its political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Egyptian men fill their ballots at a polling station in the Coptic Mensheit Nasser district in Cairo on May 23, 2012, as Egyptians vote in historic presidential elections contested by Islamists and secularists promising different futures for the country after the overthrow of veteran dictator Hosni Mubarak. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/GettyImages
An Egyptian boy rides a bicycle past a polling station in the village of Namul, 60 kms north of Cairo, on the second day of the country's landmark presidential election on May 24, 2012. Egyptians swarmed polling stations on the second day of a gripping presidential election in which candidates are pitting stability against the ideals of the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's rule. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
An Egyptian woman holds her daughter while picking up her ballot at a polling station in the rural village of Namul, 60km north of Cairo, on May 24, 2012, on the second day of the Presidential elections. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
An Egyptian man waits at a polling station in the village of Namul, 60 kms north of Cairo, on the second day of the country's landmark presidential election on May 24, 2012. Egyptians swarmed polling stations on the second day of a gripping presidential election in which candidates are pitting stability against the ideals of the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's rule. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Egyptian women in traditional Islamic garb sit next to a shop displaying western clothes in a Cairo shopping district on May 26, 2012. Final votes were still being counted, but unofficial results of Egypt's landmark presidential elections suggested that the top two vote-getters out of 12 candidates were the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Mursi and Ahmed Shafiq, a former prime minister under Hosni Mubarak. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Nuns react as black smoke rises from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel meaning that Catholic Church cardinals were still deadlocked on a choice of successor to Pope John Paul II after two rounds of voting 19 April 2005 at the Vatican City.MARCO LONGARI/AFP/GettyImages
Egyptian children carry crops in the fertile Egyptian Delta region of Menufiya, in the city of Banha, 50 kms north of the capital Cairo, on May 28, 2012. Support for ex-prime minister and presidential candidate Ahmad Shafiq is strong in a region where former presidents Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak were born and where their popularity his high, in contrast with a staunch opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Mohammed Mursi. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
An Egyptian man gestures near graffiti he painted on a pavement that reads in Arabic: "Tahrir Sqaure" during a political rally in Cairo on May 30, 2012. The election run-off presents a difficult choice for activists who led the revolt since for them, choosing former premier Ahmed Shafiq would be to admit the revolution had failed, but a vote for the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Mursi could threaten the very freedoms they fought for. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
An Egyptian protester raises his chained hands as he shouts slogans against presidential candidate and former premier Ahmed Shafiq during a demonstration in Cairo's central Tahrir Square on June 1, 2012. Shafiq, the last prime minister under ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, is to face the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Mohamed Morsi in the second round of Egypt's presidential election on June 16-17. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Egyptian protesters shout slogans against presidential candidate and former premier Ahmed Shafiq during a demonstration in Cairo's central Tahrir Square on June 1, 2012. Shafiq, the last prime minister under ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, is to face the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Mohammed Mursi in the second round of Egypt's presidential election on June 16-17. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A supporter of Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak reacts after hearing the verdict outside the court in Cairo on June 2, 2012. A judge sentenced Mubarak to life in prison after convicting him of involvement in the murder of protesters during the uprising that ousted him last year. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Supporters of Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak react after hearing the verdict outside the court in Cairo on June 2, 2012. A judge sentenced Mubarak to life in prison after convicting him of involvement in the murder of protesters during the uprising that ousted him last year. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
An Egyptian youth sleeps in Cairo's landmark Tahrir Square on June 3, 2012 after a night of protests. Hundreds of demonstrators are occupying Tahrir Square after a court sentenced ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his interior minister Habib al-Adly to life in prison but acquitted six security chiefs in the deaths of protesters last year. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Egyptian anti-Mubarak protesters gather in Cairo's Tahrir square on June 03, 2012. Thousands of people protested in Cairo for a second day after the verdicts on June 2, handed Mubarak and his interior minister Habib al-Adly life in prison over the deaths of protesters but acquitted the police commanders. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Syrian rebel fighter runs in a sniper alley in the Saif al-Dawla neighbourhood of Aleppo on September 12, 2012. Syrian rebels have vowed to retake control of the large Hanano army base in Aleppo, a few days after loosing control of it to Syrian government forces . MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Syrian woman walks past a destroyed building while reaching a food distribution centre in Aleppo on September 13, 2012. Syrian fighter jets and tanks pounded the northern city of Aleppo, an AFP journalist said, as witnesses reported rebels advancing into the key contested central Midan district. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Syrian rebels take position during clashes with regime forces as they stand near a picture of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used by rebels as a mock sniper target in the northern city of Aleppo on September 14, 2012. Syrian regime forces used fighter jets and helicopter gunships to pound the city and province of Aleppo, where fierce clashes raged around a military airport, monitors said. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Syrian rebel fires towards a position held by regime forces during clashes in the northern city of Aleppo on September 14, 2012. Syrian regime forces used fighter jets and helicopter gunships to pound the city and province of Aleppo, where fierce clashes raged around a military airport, monitors said. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Syrian men sift through the rubble of houses following an air raid by regime forces in Al-Bab, 35 kms (20 miles) northeast of Syria's commercial capital Aleppo, on September 15, 2012. Overnight air strikes killed at least 12 civilians and wounded around 60 in Al-Bab in northern Syria, doctors in the rebel-held town told AFP. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Syrian men sift through the rubble of houses following an air raid by regime forces in Al-Bab, 35 kms (20 miles) northeast of Syria's commercial capital Aleppo, on September 15, 2012. Overnight air strikes killed at least 12 civilians and wounded around 60 in Al-Bab in northern Syria, doctors in the rebel-held town told AFP. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Syrian man inspects damages following an air raid by regime forces in Al-Bab, 35 kms (20 miles) northeast of Syria's commercial capital Aleppo, on September 15, 2012. Overnight air strikes killed at least 12 civilians and wounded around 60 in Al-Bab in northern Syria, doctors in the rebel-held town told AFP. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Free Syria Army fighters man a position in the Old City of Aleppo September 16, 2012. More than 27,000 people have been killed since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's rule erupted in March last year, the Britain-based Observatory estimates. The United Nations puts the toll at 20,000. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Syrian teacher Abu al-Fattah gestures while delivering a lesson at an improvised school in the town of Azaz, on the border with Turkey, on September 17, 2012. Over 2,000 Syrian schools have been damaged or destroyed and hundreds more are being used as shelters, the UN said on September 14, warning it faced a staggering challenge for the new school year. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Syrian students attend classes at an improvised school in the town of Azaz, on the border with Turkey, on September 17, 2012. Over 2,000 Syrian schools have been damaged or destroyed and hundreds more are being used as shelters, the UN said on September 14, warning it faced a staggering challenge for the new school year. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Young Syrian students wait for the beginning of a class at an improvised school in the town of Azaz, on the border with Turkey, on September 17, 2012. Over 2,000 Syrian schools have been damaged or destroyed and hundreds more are being used as shelters, the UN said on September 14, warning it faced a staggering challenge for the new school year. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Members of a Syrian family cry outside a hospital after surviving a strike by Syrian regime forces in the Sheikh Fares district of the northern city of Aleppo on September 18, 2012. Syrian troops shelled several districts in Aleppo and clashed with rebels, as Damascus ally Iran proposed a simultaneous halt to the violence and a peaceful solution to the conflict. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Syrian man carries his wounded daughter outside a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo on September 18, 2012. Syrian troops shelled several districts in Aleppo and clashed with rebels, as Damascus ally Iran proposed a simultaneous halt to the violence and a peaceful solution to the conflict. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
An Egyptian demonstrator wears a "Scary Movie" mask as he challenges riot policemen during confrontations in Cairo on February 6, 2012, as protesters and police clashed again outside Cairo's security headquarters in the wake of deadly football violence and amid calls by activists for civil disobedience in Egypt. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
An Egyptian demonstrator uses goggles and a protective mask against tear gas fired by riot police during confrontations outside Cairo's security headquarters on February 6, 2012, as clashes continued in the Egyptian capital in the wake of deadly football violence and amid calls by activists for civil disobedience in Egypt. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinians and foreign visitors gather at the 2012 Taybeh Oktoberfest beer festival in the West Bank Christian village of Taybeh, near Ramallah, on October 6, 2012. The annual beer festival is put on by the Taybeh brewery, the only such establishment in the predominantly Muslim Palestinian territories. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Egyptian protesters are engulfed in a cloud of teargas as they gather at a barricade erected against the riot police near the central Tahrir square in Cairo on February 5, 2012 as deadly clashes raged into a fourth day and the interior minister leapt to the defense of his reviled forces. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A rose tattoo is seen on the calf of a female Israeli soldier lined up with her comrades during a rehearsal, ahead of a state visit of Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev, who is to meet with his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres on October 22, 2012. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Palestinian man pets a goat as people gather at a sheep market in Bethlehem on October 24, 2012, ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. Eid al-Adha or "Feast of the Sacrifice", marks the end of the annual hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca and celebrates in remembrance of Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son to God. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A supporter of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak (portrait) waits for news from his trial outside the court in Cairo on February 22, 2012, as the landmark murder and corruption trial of the former leader entered its final day of hearings, with the judge expected to announce the date of the verdict. Cameras are not allowed inside the courtroom and state television did not show Mubarak or the defendants arriving in court. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinian scouts salute at the mausoleum of the late leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on November 10, 2012, ahead of a ceremony marking the eighth anniversary of this death. The Palestinians' most explosive secret may be lurking under the stone slab covering Arafat's tomb where experts hope to explain his mysterious death eight years ago. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
The Palestinian owner of a damaged plastic factory, gestures in front of a pile of melted plastic in Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip, on November 11, 2012, following Israeli artillery fire and shelling. Five Gazans were killed and 30 injured by Israeli shelling after militants fired an anti-tank rocket at an Israeli jeep, wounding four soldiers, sources on both sides said. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Relatives of 10-month-old Palestinian girl, Hanen Tafesh, killed the day before in an Israeli air strike, mourn over her body before her funeral in Gaza City, on November 16, 2012. Israeli warplanes carried out multiple new air strikes on the Palestinian territory, including several hits on Gaza City, the third day of an intensive campaign which the military has said is aimed at stamping out rocket fire on southern Israel. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A picture taken on November 11, 2012 shows the skyline of Gaza City seen from a viewpoint in the al-Shejaya neighbourhood where four Gazans were killed by Israeli fire on November 10. Israeli shelling on November 10, injured 30 people after militants fired an anti-tank rocket at an Israeli jeep, wounding four soldiers, sources on both sides said. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Palestinian man squats while looking through a hole in the roof of the from the Tatari family home in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, damaged following Israeli strikes, on November 13, 2012. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak warned that a flare-up in violence with Gaza was "not over," after new rocket fire in the morning and Israeli strikes overnight. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Palestinian man calls for help as he and others try to save a man trapped under his car just after an Israeli air raid on the area of Twaam in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahia on November 15, 2012. Israeli air strikes have killed more than ten Gazans, including top Hamas commander Ahmed Jaabari, as three Israelis die when a rocket strikes a house, in the latest flareup of tit-for-tat fighting. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinian firefighters try to extinguish a fire at the Civilian Affairs branch of the Ministry of Interior following an Israeli air raid in Gaza City on November 16, 2012. Israel was condemned by much of the Arab world while securing Western backing and pressing its biggest air assault on Gaza for years amid a wave of Palestinian short-range rocket fire. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinian male relatives grieve over the body of Nayef Qarmut, a teenager killed on his way to school in an Israeli military drone strike, as he is prepared for burial at the morgue in Beit Lahiya on March 12, 2012, in the northern Gaza Strip. Israel's air force pounded Gaza overnight with a series of raids which killed three people, raising the death toll to 21 as the bloodshed entered its fourth day. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Palestinian man looks at rubble of the Civilian Affairs branch of the Ministry of Interior following an Israeli air raid in Gaza City on November 16, 2012. Israel was condemned by much of the Arab world while securing Western backing and pressing its biggest air assault on Gaza for years amid a wave of Palestinian short-range rocket fire. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
The mother of 10-month-old Palestinian girl, Hanen Tafesh, killed the day before in an Israeli air strike, mourns over her body before her funeral in Gaza City, on November 16, 2012. Israeli warplanes carried out multiple new air strikes on the Palestinian territory, including several hits on Gaza City, the third day of an intensive campaign which the military has said is aimed at stamping out rocket fire on southern Israel. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinians run for cover after an Israeli airstrike hit the northern Gaza City on Nobember 16, 2012. Gaza militants targeted Tel Aviv on November 16, with another rocket, defying Israeli warnings of a possible ground assault to follow its aerial bombardment of the Hamas-run strip. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinian firefighters and rescue personnel work at a blast site following an Israeli air raid in Gaza City on November 17, 2012. Israeli air strikes hit the cabinet headquarters of Gaza's Hamas government, the group said early on November 17, with eyewitnesses reporting extensive damage to the building. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli air raid in Gaza City on November 17, 2012. Israeli air strikes hit the cabinet headquarters of Gaza's Hamas government after militants fired rockets at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as Israel called up thousands more reservists in readiness for a potential ground war. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinians inspect damages at the site of an Israeli air raid in Gaza City on November 17, 2012. Israeli air strikes hit the cabinet headquarters of Gaza's Hamas government after militants fired rockets at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as Israel called up thousands more reservists in readiness for a potential ground war. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Palestinian man, a neighbor of Ezzedine Haddad, commander of the armed wing of the Hamas movement, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, is comforted by family members after an Israeli airstrike which destroyed the home of the commander in Gaza City on November 17, 2012. Israeli air strikes in Gaza killed 10 Palestinians, five of them militants, as nine Israelis were hurt by rocket fire, four of them soldiers, medics said. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinians are seen through the shattered windshield of a car as they inspect the site of an Israeli airstrike on the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on November 18, 2012. Two people were killed, one of them a child, when an Israeli missile hit a beachfront refugee camp in Gaza City, the Hamas-run health ministry and witnesses said. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinian men gather around a crater caused by an Israeli air strike on the al-Dallu family's home in Gaza City on November 18, 2012. Israeli air strikes killed at least 18 Palestinians in the bloodiest day so far of its massive air campaign on the Gaza Strip, as diplomatic efforts to broker a truce intensified. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Palestinian woman is helped by a paramedic out of her building, damaged during an Israeli air raid on a nearby sporting centre in Gaza City November 19, 2012. Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed 31 Palestinians in the bloodiest day so far of its air campaign on the Gaza Strip, as diplomatic efforts to broker a truce intensified. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Palestinian woman protects her child while leaving a building damaged after an Israeli air raid in Gaza City November 19, 2012. Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed 31 Palestinians in the bloodiest day so far of its air campaign on the Gaza Strip, as diplomatic efforts to broker a truce intensified. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Palestinian man carries a stuffed toy in a street littered with debris after a Israeli air raid on a nearby sporting centre in Gaza City on November 19, 2012. Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed 31 Palestinians in the bloodiest day so far of its air campaign on the Gaza Strip, as diplomatic efforts to broker a truce intensified. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Palestinian family wait with their belongings to leave the area after an Israeli air raid on a nearby sporting centre in Gaza City on November 19, 2012. Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed 31 Palestinians in the bloodiest day so far of its air campaign on the Gaza Strip, as diplomatic efforts to broker a truce intensified. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Palestinian boy tends to his horse at the central market in Gaza City on November 19, 2012. Food prices have started to rise due to lack of fresh supplies due to ongoing unrest with Israel, as scarce produce is met with more demands by the residents of the Palestinian coastal enclave. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Palestinian carries a bag of salvaged items from a house destroyed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City, on November 20, 2012. Seven Palestinians were wounded in strikes on Gaza overnight, but no one was killed in the first night without fatalities since the Israeli air campaign began nearly a week ago. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
The body of a cameraman working with Hamas-owned Al-Aqsa TV is wheeled into the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on November 20, 2012. Two cameramen from Hamas-owned Al-Aqsa TV were among six people killed in Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip, raising Tuesday's death toll to 20, a Hamas spokesman said. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Blood leaks from under the door of the al-Shifa hospital morgue in Gaza City on November 20, 2012. Two cameramen from Hamas-owned Al-Aqsa TV were among six people killed in Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip, raising Tuesday's death toll to 20, a Hamas spokesman said. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Palestinian relative of one of the two children killed the previous day in an Israeli air strike on the Zeitun neighborhood in Gaza City vents his anger at a hospital's morgue ahead of their funeral on November 21, 2012 in the war-battered city. The Hamas ambulance service had announced on November 20 that two children died in a strike in the Zeitun neighborhood. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Palestinian woman grieves in front of a green house where her farmer husband was killed hours before the end of the hostilities in the al-Atatra area in the northern Gaza Strip November 22, 2012. A ceasefire took hold in and around Gaza after a week of cross-border violence between Israel and Palestinian militants that killed at least 160 people. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinian Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniya (R) consoles the mother of Ahmed Jaabari, the late leader of the Hamas armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, in Gaza City on November 22, 2012. Jaabari was killed when his car was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on November 14. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinians celebrate waving Fatah and Hamas flags at the square of the Unknown Soldier in central Gaza City on November 22, 2012. Israeli politicians returned to the campaign trail as the streets of Gaza came back to life after a truce ended eight days of bloodshed, with both sides claiming victory while remaining wary. AFP PHOTO/MARCO LONGARI (Photo credit should read MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)
Members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, address a press conference in Gaza City on November 22, 2012 at the house of their late leader Ahmed Jaabari, who was killed when an Israeli air strike hit his car on November 14. Israeli politicians returned to the campaign trail as the streets of Gaza came back to life after a truce ended eight days of bloodshed, with both sides claiming victory while remaining wary. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Gunmen from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, line up outside the house of their late leader Ahmed Jaabari, after mourners finished visiting his family to pay their condolences in Gaza City on November 22, 2012. Israeli politicians returned to the campaign trail as the streets of Gaza came back to life after a truce ended eight days of bloodshed, with both sides claiming victory while remaining wary. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A wounded Egyptian demonstrator is carried away by other youths during confrontations with riot police in Cairo on February 6, 2012, as clashes continued outside the Egyptian capital's security headquarters in the wake of deadly football violence and amid calls by activists for civil disobedience in Egypt. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Egyptian military policemen are lined-up behind barbed wire during a demonstration against the country's military rulers in Cairo on February 10, 2012. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Palestinian girl dressed as a Ezzedine al-Qassam brigade member is seen holding the barrel of a gun during a march by Hamas armed wing in Beit Hanun on December 6, 2012. The Hamas government confirmed that the Islamist movement's exiled politburo chief Khaled Meshaal was due in the Gaza Strip to celebrate its 25th anniversary. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
A Palestinian militant from the Ezzedine al-Qassam brigade, the armed wing of Hamas, poses with his weapon while waiting for the arrival of Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Meshaal in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on December 7, 2012. Meshaal is making his first-ever visit to the Gaza Strip amid tight security for festivities marking the ruling Islamist movement's 25th anniversary. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinian militants from the Ezzedine al-Qassam brigade, the armed wing of Hamas, perform Friday prayer ahead of the arrival of Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Meshaal in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on December 7, 2012. Meshaal is making his first-ever visit to the Gaza Strip amid tight security for festivities marking the ruling Islamist movement's 25th anniversary. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
An elderly supporter of Hamas shouts slogans during a rally to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Islamist movement, in Gaza on December 8, 2012. Tens of thousands of Palestinians massed in Gaza for a rally marking the anniversary to be addressed by Hamas leader in exile Khaled Meshaal, who is on his first ever visit to Gaza. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinian militants from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigade, the armed wing of Hamas, parade at a rally to mark the 25th anniversary of Hamas in Gaza City on December 8, 2012. More than 100,000 Palestinians gathered in Gaza for a rally to celebrate the occasion which will be addressed by the ruling Islamist movement's leader in exile Khaled Meshaal, who is on his first ever visit to Gaza. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Egyptian soldiers stand in line as anti President Mohamed Morsi protesters stand on top of a barricade erected by the Egyptian army to protect the Presidential Palace in Cairo on December 11, 2012. Protesters gathered in Cairo for rival rallies over a deeply disputed constitutional referendum proposed by Egypt's Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi, raising fears of street clashes . MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
An Egyptian flag is waved as thousands of Egyptian Copts attend a Mass celebration in the Cave Cathedral or St Sama'ans in the Manshiet Nasser district of Cairo on December 13, 2012 where they prayed for Egypt ahead of the disputed referendum on the new draft Constitution slated for Saturday December 15th. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Egyptian women wait outside a polling station to cast their votes on a new constitution supported by the ruling Islamists but bitterly contested by a secular-leaning opposition on December 15, 2012 in Cairo. President Mohamed Morsi cast his ballot in a polling station close to his presidential palace in the capital, state television showed, but he made no comment to the media. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
An Egyptian woman walks past a wall stained with ink by voters who tried to clean their marked fingers at a polling station in the historical City of the Dead district in Cairo, on December 15, 2012. Egypt's opposition cried fraud in the first round of a divisive referendum on a new constitution, accusing President Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood of rigging votes to adopt the Islamist-backed text. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
An Egyptian woman screams as she walks past Egyptian soldiers standing on guard in front of the Presidential Palace in Cairo on December 18, 2012, ahead of a planned demonstration by opposition supporters. Egypt's opposition is readying fresh protests in a last-minute bid to scuttle a draft constitution pushed by President Mohamed Morsi and his Islamist backers. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
Egyptian demonstrators gather next to a concrete block barricade during confrontations outside Cairo's security headquarters on February 6, 2012, as clashes continued in the Egyptian capital in the wake of deadly football violence and amid calls by activists for civil disobedience in Egypt. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
An Egyptian opposition supporter is pictured through green laser lights as he takes part in a demonstration on December 18, 2012 in front of the Cairo palace of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in a last-ditch bid to scuttle the draft constitution being put to a referendum. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images
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