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“I can fast. My chickens and plants can’t. I can go without drinking water for 18 hours during Ramadan. I understand. But my plants and chickens, what do they know? What can I tell them – to make do, because Mekorot [the Israeli water company] is reducing the amount of water, and specifically now during the summer and Ramadan?” says Nizar Rayan, a resident of Qarawat Bani Hassan in the Salfit District.

Rayan has an impressive plant nursery in front of his house and a large chicken coop down the road. At the beginning of June, when it became clear that the cuts in the water supply to the towns and villages in the central West Bank district were not temporary, he rushed out and sold almost all of his 700 chickens. He thought he would have enough water for about 80 chickens when the regular water supply was renewed, but 50 of them died from dehydration last week. Another died on Sunday. When he entered the almost empty coop to show me around, he discovered the dead body lying on the ground. That’s how, within two to three weeks, Rayan calculates that he’s lost some 7,000 shekels ($1,800)…

“If we had known, we could have prepared appropriately,” Ishtayeh said. “Told people to fill bottles, to give up what was not urgent – for example, washing cars or floors. To warn the owner of the cowshed. Close the taps in order to ensure that some water will remain in the reservoir, so that when we start [the water] flowing again, there will be enough pressure.”

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Wowwww amazing!!

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“In Syria, we were living a poor life, but at least it was a life,” she says. Her brown eyes are empty, haunted — the eyes of an exhausted old woman, not a 12-year-old girl. “We had our pride and dignity. We came here, and we have nothing. If the situation doesn’t change and our lives stay like this, we should all kill ourselves.”

Given the misery to which their lives have been reduced, it should be no surprise that many Syrians are turning to suicide as an escape. According to a 2014 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) study, 41 percent of Syrian youths in Lebanon say they have had suicidal urges.

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Perhaps the purest and deepest form of love is having someone praying and supplicating for you, without you ever knowing.

(via safanoora)

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All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven; Mitch Albom (via mylittlebookofquotes)

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Archbishop Atallah Hanna Speaks on the Palestinian Right of Return

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So cute?!

I love these 10 cute motivational posts from chibird.

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I’m not interested in whether you’ve stood with the great. I’m interested in whether you’ve sat with the broken.

Unknown (via deeplifequotes)

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Wow

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夜明けとともに、霧が立ち込める中、ミヤマキリシマの開花状況を見に中岳へ行ってまいりました(￣^￣)ゞ

ようやく7分咲きくらいかな？

でも、そろそろ来週くらいは満開になるかもね(￣▽￣)b

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A beautiful lesson from Sūrah Yūsuf, is that even if the closest people in your life go against you, as long as you trust Him and have patience, He will raise your status and open doors for you in the darkest moments.

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Why I don't like talking

Other People: you should talk more!

Me: *tries to talk*

-gets ignored

-gets interrupted

-gets talked over

-no one pays attention

-no one cares

-fucks up what i was gunna say

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Subtle expectations and standards that i have to constantly conform to in my head...It's only recent that i realized that i am actually quite a perfectionist when doing work. It's quite scary...i fall sick easily and i need to relax sometimes :/ At the same time, I really hope I don't aggressively impose my expectations on other, i really apologize if I do

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Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.

Carol Gilligan (via fyp-psychology)