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from Like i said yesterday, This year, Palestinian journalists deserve to win every award, every recognition that exists for courageous journalism

To the ones fighting and to those who were murdered while bearing witness

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via A post about a killed Palestinian doctor “goes against community guidelines.”

Why Instagram?

Are you trying to erase his memory like the Israeli military erased him from this earth?

Shameful.

Dr. Abu Al Rob’s life mattered. I don’t care about your abhorrent community guidelines.

***share *** what IG removed and wants to suppress

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via the comments on the post are my dose of radical optimism for the week

via They’re banking on you being distracted at the start of the 4 days pause. Remember: we’re goin’ all the way. It’s free Palestine until it’s backwards. 🇵🇸

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Solution has always been the same: make it too expensive for them to run their illegal apartheid state and occupation.

Then the entire world will listen.

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via For everyone who is remaining silent in the face of a literal GENOCIDE unfolding before your eyes, or trying to make this a two-sides or "all lives matter" issue, WE SEE YOU. we see you for your CORE of who you really are.

The Occupation of Water

The legacy of Israel’s 50-year occupation of the Palestinian territories has been systematic human rights violations on a mass scale. One of its most devastating consequences is the impact of Israel’s discriminatory policies on Palestinians’ access to adequate supplies of clean and safe water.

Soon after Israel occupied the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, in June 1967, the Israeli military authorities consolidated complete power over all water resources and water-related infrastructure in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).

50 years on, Israel continues to control and restrict Palestinian access to water in the OPT to a level which neither meets their needs nor constitutes a fair distribution of shared water resources.

In November 1967 the Israeli authorities issued Military Order 158, which stated that Palestinians could not construct any new water installation without first obtaining a permit from the Israeli army. Since then, the extraction of water from any new source or the development of any new water infrastructure would require permits from Israel, which are near impossible to obtain.

Palestinians living under Israel’s military occupation continue to suffer the devastating consequences of this order until today. They are unable to drill new water wells, install pumps or deepen existing wells, in addition to being denied access to the Jordan River and fresh water springs. Israel even controls the collection of rain water throughout most of the West Bank, and rainwater harvesting cisterns owned by Palestinian communities are often destroyed by the Israeli army.

As a result, some 180 Palestinian communities in rural areas in the occupied West Bank have no access to running water, according to OCHA. Even in towns and villages which are connected to the water network, the taps often run dry.

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"Even saying 'the war between Gaza and Israel is wrong,' because Gaza is not a standalone entity," says United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese.

Tap the link in bio for our interview with Albanese from before Israel began its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, where she warned the displacement of potentially millions of Palestinians from Gaza would constitute ethnic cleansing.

As an atheist, I neither consider myself a Hindu, nor do I believe in any god. Regardless, to me, remains a time of togetherness, a time to share food, drink and goodwill with friends and family alike. This, to me, is and always has been far more important than any expression of worship during this or any other time of the year.
The people of are under relentless and continuous attack today, separated, some of them forever, from their families and friends. They are thirsty, hungry and in very real danger of being consumed by darkness. I honour their will to survive and send them, and all the people of my solidarity, meagre as it is, in this made out in their colours.

“No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.”
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I'm used to being served in a clear or frosted glass mug, but this one came to my table in a large, green ceramic mug. Looked a bit like coffee, but since I'd be more than happy to knock one down morning, noon or night, I reckon it doesn't make much of a difference. http://ift.tt/1OLL9Bg

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Let there be Light to enlighten the rim of every glass jar .

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (1839), Book IV, Chapter V.

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Continuing her series on mastering beauty portraits, Julia Kuzmenko delves into the world of studio lighting:
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The road less taken is often the one worth travelling unto.