Israeli and Palestinian peace activists walk behind cardboard cut-outs depicting the Israeli apartheid wall as they wave a Palestinian national flag during a peace march near a checkpoint between the West Bank city of Beit Jala and Jerusalem on January 15, 2016 (AFP) 

Peace activists called for this march under the slogan "a better future for both people, a future of peace, justice and equality".

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