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"Ramadan Hard Without Them"

"I'm sad because my mother is not around to make the meals for breaking the fast,” the orphaned child Almaza Samuni told Agence France Presse (AFP) on Sunday, August 23.

Not far from the Samunis makeshift tent, lives Dalal Abu Aisha, whose Ramadan is no less gloomy.

Dalal breaks the Ramadan fast on a table of empty chairs that were once occupied by her parents and three siblings.

"Now that Ramadan is here it reminds Dalal of the early-morning meals, the breaking of the fast with her family and the presents she used to receive from her father," Umm Adel, an aunt who is helping to raise Dalal, told AFP.

"She always seems distracted.”

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Source: IslamOnline.net

 
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