A Palestinian boy touches a mural of the late leader Yasser Arafat, in Gaza City, yesterday. Palestinians mark the fifth anniversary of Arafat's death. Arafat died November 11, 2004, in a Paris hospital at age 75. Writing in Arabic reads "In Jerusalem - who is in Jerusalem - I only see you".
The rival militant Hamas group which runs Gaza banned similar commemoration in the coastal strip and arrested several activists from Arafat's Fatah movement from holding rallies.
Arafat is buried in Ramallah, the West Bank administrative capital.
At the ceremony in Ramallah on Tuesday evening, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said his people are prepared to make peace with Israel but they will not agree to moves that reinforce Israel's occupation - a remark seen as a veiled criticism of US policy.
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