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Palestinian school boys salute as they listen to the Palestinian anthem before their first day of studying at a school that opened despite a widely observed strike of teachers in the Palestinian territories, in West Bank town of Nablus Saturday Sept. 2, 2006. Compliance with the strike of unpaid teachers was widespread in major West Bank cities, though classes were held for high school seniors in some schools because teachers were reluctant to disrupt that critical final year. At a news conference in Ramallah, the head of the civil service union, Bassam Zakarneh, reported that 85- to 90 percent of the teachers and all other government institutions, except police, utilities and state-run broadcasters, were on strike. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)