24 hours: Palestinian protestor slings tear gas cannister back in retaliation

A Palestinian stone-throwing protester uses a sling to throw back a tear gas canister fired by Israeli security officers (rear), during clashes after a rally marking the 48th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah movement, in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah on Jan 4, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A picture of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is seen on a religious altar in Caracas on Jan 4, 2013. Chavez is still suffering a "severe" respiratory infection that has hindered his breathing as he struggles to recover from cancer surgery in Cuba, the government said on Thursday. The 58-year-old socialist leader has not been seen in public nor heard from in more than three weeks. Officials say he is in delicate condition after his fourth operation in just 18 months for an undisclosed form of cancer in his pelvic area. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A man walks past a table of replica toy guns seized by local authorities, before they are organised to be destroyed in Mexico City on Jan 4, 2013. Three out of ten offences of aggravated robbery with violence are committed using replica toy weapons, according to local media. Local authorities reported to have seized over 17,000 replica weapons in zones with high crime rates in Mexico City. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Haitians walk past the remains of a helicopter, through a camp for people displaced by the Jan 2010 earthquake, located at what used to be an aviation site, in Port-au-Prince on Jan 4, 2013. Almost three years after the devastating earthquake, some 300,000 people still live in makeshift structures. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A woman sits as she ask for alms in the Andalusian capital of Seville on Jan 4, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A fisherman stands on a mooring on the Yenisei River, in air temperatures of about minus 20 deg C during winter in Russia's Siberian town of Divnogorsk outside Krasnoyarsk on Jan 4, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A flamingo is pictured in its enclosure at the zoo in Wuppertal on Jan 4, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Smoke from a bushfire billows over beach goers at Carlton, about 20km east of Hobart on Jan 4, 2013. Bushfires destroyed over 80 homes as temperatures in Australia's island state Tasmania peaked at record highs on Friday, local media reported. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A Free Syrian Army fighter walks near buildings damaged by what activists said were missiles fired by a Syrian Air Force fighter jet loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, at Taftanaz, near Idlib on Jan 3, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Australia's Matthew Wade celebrates reaching a century during the third day's play of the third cricket test match against Sri Lanka at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Jan 5, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A Palestinian releases a pigeon during a rally marking the 48th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah movement, in Gaza City on Jan 4, 2013. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians joined a rare rally staged by President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah group in Gaza on Friday, as tensions ease with rival Hamas Islamists ruling the enclave since 2007. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Buddhist monks participate in a procession to mark the 2,600th anniversary of the enlightenment of Lord Buddha, on the outskirts of Bangkok on Jan 4, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS