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Children holding guns (11 images)

Long-standing violence in the Middle East has affected children and adults alike. Here is a look at UPI’s most striking photos of children carrying real and toy weapons during local celebrations.



Iraqi boys play with toy guns to celebrate Eid al-Fitr in Baghdad, Iraq on October 3, 2008. Eid al-Fitr, which celebrates the end of the holy month of Ramadan, is the most important date in the Muslim calendar. Photo by Ali Jasim/UPI
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Palestinian children play with toy guns on the first day of Eid al-Fitr in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 28, 2014. The Muslim three-day Eid al-Fitr festival marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli-Gaza conflict in the past two weeks. Photo by Ismael Mohamad/UPI
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An Israeli boy aims an automatic weapon displayed at an exhibition to celebrate Israel's 67th Independence Day in the Horon army base near Nablus, West Bank, April 23, 2015. Photo by Debbie Hill/UPI
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LEB2002040705 - BEIRUT, Lebanon, April 7 (UPI) -- Two Palestinian children from Hamas carry mock guns and wear an outfits emulating suicide bombers with (Kataab Al-kassam) written on her headbands, during a demonstration near the United Nations headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, on April 7, 2002. Lebanese and Palestinian demonstrators marched throughout Lebanon on Sunday to demand Arab goverments act on the Israeli aggression in Palestine. File photo by UPI
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