In this Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011 photo, Palestinian militants from the Al Nasser Brigades, an armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), participate in a training session in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. Palestinian leadership in the West Bank, the internationally backed government, is seeking recognition of an independent state on territories that Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast War, including the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)