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Farmer Mohamed
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Mirror for Mohamed Ahmed of the Small Farm in Mawasi camp, Gaza. If his account gets zapped, we'll post from here till he makes a new one. ("we": @meave.bsky.social) please help our friend: bit.ly/help-mohamed 𝙉𝙀𝙒: @maratan-ukhraa.bsky.social
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 3d
Mohamed's been thinking about this a lot recently.
It's never been safe for him to get close enough to their village to be able to see if there's anything left of it.

where can he go, and have the right to buy land, and own some head of sheep? and be happy?
bit.ly/help-mohamed figure this out.
We are fine, at least we are optimistic that the killing will stop, even if only for a short time. (8:01) But I am the saddest of them all because I am certain that I will lose my land forever. (8:01) My grandfather lived as a refugee in 1948. My father lived a relatively stable life. I will continue my life as a refugee. My children are refugees. I am thinking somewhat deeply. (8:03) This is what I'm thinking these days (8:03) mohamed ahmed: Hi I miss my sisters for a while (12:27) I want to explain to you what would happen to me if the politicians agreed to this plan. (12:28) I need to get the pain out of my heart in this conversation. (edited 12:28) mohamed ahmed: I ask myself, will my children and I live the life of refugees? (12:29) Will I be able to buy land for me and them and plant its love in their hearts just as I love my land? (12:31) Can Abdullah own sheep? (12:31)
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 3d
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My friends, I have written words that came from my heart to your hearts. Please open the pictures and read what I wrote. There are no secrets between brothers. Read how your friend’s life has become. The issue has become bigger than donations and money.
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Hello my brothers / I have some words that I must say from the beginning when I was displaced from Rafah I had great hope to return to my land which is located near the Philadelphi axis where my house, sheep and trees are. I was planning to rebuild everything from scratch with donations and I will not hide from you a secret that I was saving part of the money I received from donations to rebuild that. I was planning to connect water and build wooden or tin houses and connect water and start planting olive trees and buy 10 sheep and start establishing a herd and life goes on. / But a few days ago I saw Trump's plan to end the war. I was surprised that the plan includes a buffer zone on the Philadelphi axis and this news was like a thunderbolt for me. My land that my grandfather inherited from me, I will never return to it / Politicians are planning without considering the psychological and material damage that will befall me and my family as a result of this plan / I want to ask you, is this fair? Of course not / I will say something in the end. I swear that now I do not have an alternative plan for all this tragedy that I have been exposed to / I will honestly tell everyone that from now on I am not collecting money to buy food and tents / Rather, I am collecting money for something bigger than that. Now I must provide a better future for my children after their and was occupied / All I want from vou is for vou to understand what … without considering the psychological and material damage that will befall me and my family as a result of this plan / I want to ask you, is this fair? Of course not / I will say something in the end. I swear that now I do not have an alternative plan for all this tragedy that I have been exposed to / I will honestly tell everyone that from now on I am not collecting money to buy food and tents / Rather, I am collecting money for something bigger than that. Now I must provide a better future for my children after their land was occupied / All I want from you is for you to understand what I am saying with your hearts and minds / What will I say to my seventy-year-old mother? Will I tell her that you will not return to your trees? Or will I tell her that you will end up displaced from a tent that is not fit to live in? Or will I tell her that we must leave Gaza and go to another country? / Believe me, I am writing words that come from my heart to your hearts / You are my community that has always stood by me for many long months / That is enough because I write and cry
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 4d
pre-genocide, @maratan-ukhraa.bsky.social raised Awassi sheep, but he has a slight…obsession with the Shetland. before the blockade took all his money to feed his family, we used to imagine where he could live that would let him import a few head of shetland for a new flock.
hence the shetland lambs
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meave (sumud, sister) @meave.bsky.social · 4d
i was just…shown a CBS broadcast that implied the iof had ceased-firing, which made me want to scream, seeing as how they bombed the hell out of khan yunis today, in addition to gaza city.

to avoid crying, i made @maratan-ukhraa.bsky.social this "comic" (transl. in alt text)
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الأحوان شتلاند في "العام المقبل في بئر السبع" three shetland lambs stand together on a very gentle grass-covered slope. From right, they are dark brown, medium brown and white, and white with a dark nose. the sun is low in the sky and coming from behind them. each lamb has a text balloon. the smallest, brownest sheep says, أخي، هل سنذوق عشب النقب الحلو مرة أخرى؟ the middle sheep, agreeing, continues: نعم، هل سيأخذنا الراعي في الربيع؟ and the largest, all-white sheep says, أيها الإخوة، يوماً ما سنتمكن من تذوق كل أعشاب فلسطين الحرة الحلوة. he also has a little heart with the palestinian flag filled in. The photographer's credit الصورة: كارين روم is in the bottom right corner. translation: The Shetland Brothers in "Next Year in Bi'r as-Sab`" first lamb: "Brother, shall we taste the sweet grass of the Negev again?" second lamb: "Yes, shall the shepherd take us in the spring?” third lamb: "“Brothers, one day we shall be able to taste all the sweet grasses of free Palestine." Photo: Karen Rowe
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 5d
It's lambing season in Gaza; during the last one before evacuatioooon, Sami got to bottle-feed & care for his very own lamb until it was ready for wean . It was a dream for him, just like his father.
we can raise enough to get the family through another winter and start again bit.ly/help-mohamed
Help Mohamed Get His Family to Safety
Hello, this is Meave Gallagher, the sponsor of this fundraising campaign for our dear friend, Mohamed Ahmed, the displaced Palestinian farmer growing a small farm in Mawasi, Khan Yunis. His original g...
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 5d
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Yesterday I checked my things that I brought from my home on the day of displacement / I found a notebook in which I used to record the dates of the sheep’s pregnancy and birth dates dating back to 2017 / I cried over the beautiful memories / Please share and donate
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a page out of a tidy notebook with sheep's names and numbers written in blue ink. a corner of a tidy notebook, with a list of a page of sheep's names and numbers written in blue ink.
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 11d
mirror+quote:

Hello my friends, imagine yourself in my place, supporting 13 people / and you cannot provide for their needs / food, medicine and shelter / winter is coming and I need to build tents suitable for living in during the winter / please share and donate if you can
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a post from MOHAMAD AHMAD @maratan-ukhraa.bsky.social Hello my friends, imagine yourself in my place, supporting 13 people / and you cannot provide for their needs / food, medicine and shelter / winter is coming and I need to build tents suitable for living in during the winter / please share and donate if you can bit.ly/help-mohamed a photo of some fuzzy green olives from, i presume, one of mohamed’s father’s trees that the iof almost certainly destroyed to created the “buffer zone” around rafah a light pink eggplant flower, i believe, poking up amid a bed of big, healthy green leaves, with four yellow-green buds around it.
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 14d
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I helped them with some money, but the problem is the place

we can't find a place that can accommodate a tent and a bathroom.

A meter of wood costs 20 shekels. Available but expensive.
A 4x5 awning costs 400 shekels.
We need 3 awnings.

𝗹𝗲𝘁'𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘀̣𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗾𝗮𝗵 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿: bit.ly/help-mohamed
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 14d
𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥-𝘵𝘩𝘦-𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘥:

Nothing will happen in this world except what God wants.
Here the tragedy increases as more Gazans are displaced.
A family just came with no place and no money.
I wish I had more to help them.
If only we could get them some tarpaulins and wood.

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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 14d
مرآة

Hello, how are you, my brothers? I send you greetings from Gaza, from the Mawasi camp. My friends, the conditions here are unbearable. Please share and donate if you can. I am not well. I feel suffocated. I do not know why.
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A screenshot of a text from MOHAMAD AHMAD @maratan-ukhraa.bsky.social Hello, how are you, my brothers? I send you greetings from Gaza, from the Mawasi camp. My friends, the conditions here are unbearable. Please share and donate if you can. I am not well. I feel suffocated. I do not know why. bit.ly/help-mohamed Below the post, a photo of Abdullah in the small farm, wearing a black t-shirt and black shorts, bare feet, standing before an enormous potted yakteen gourd plant, focusing hard on poking around an old can. his black hair looks a bit dusty, and his bent head makes his brown cheeks look rounder than usual below the photo: September 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM Everybody can reply Translate 28 reposts 1 quotes 24 likes
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 15d
May God have mercy on the one who raised me and taught me how to be a person with a balanced personality and who can say the truth when a dispute arises between two people or two families.
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(further reading: jstor.org/stable/resrep10120.6)
9/2013 KAS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS The difference between sulh and tribal law can best be explained by looking at their respective representatives: A tribal judge, representing tribal law, is a person who specialises in solving disputes presented to him, through issuing a final verdict to both parties that is based on tribal urf, and through the accreditation of proofs and conjectures presented to him by the parties to the disputes. An islah man, representing the tribal sulh, is a person who seeks to solve conflicts between two parties through bridging the gap between their points of view, utilising his personal qualities such as the ability to convince, eloquence and good reputation in order to achieve a conciliatory outcome to the demands of the parties to the disputes, relying on a number of sources, mostly urf. The term islah stems from the sulha (reconciliation). The final settlement of the case is then called Saq Al-Sulh.
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 15d
(𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥'𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 @maratan-ukhraa.bsky.social 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘮 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰)

I started working some time ago, following my father’s work, may God have mercy on him. Now I work as a mediator to resolve problems between people in the camp.
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 16d
some mirror site this’d be without our brother’s philosophizing
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it’s not just that he has to feed his children, build snug tin houses, prepare for winter
as the genocide rages on, he has to hold onto his own identity, set an example as a leader

learn: bit.ly/palestinian-bedouins
a quote repost of a post by @maratan-ukhraa.bsky.social: MOHAMAD AHMAD @maratan-ukhraa.bsky.social • 7h Today I asked myself some questions. First, where is my city, Rafah? It is occupied. Second, where is my village? It is occupied. Third, where am I? I am displaced in the Mawasi camp. Fourth, what is my future? I don't know. Fifth, in a year from now, what will my life be like? There is no answer. MOHAMAD AHMAD @maratan-ukhraa.bsky.social • 8h Good morning my brothers, I send you greetings from Gaza. Please, my brothers, donate and spread the word. We are not well in Gaza. Do what you can for my family. We are suffering here. bit.ly/help-mohamed 0 replies 9 reposts or quote reposts 14 likes
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 16d
@maratan-ukhraa.bsky.social for when you wake, brother
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 16d
so beautiful
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 18d
(𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 @maratan-ukhraa.bsky.social 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘴. 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘦'𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴; 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘣 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘶𝘱, 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳? 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬 —𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦)

hello, bleatrix!
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… this is Bleatrix as a lamb …
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 18d
Good morning, I send you greetings from Gaza. Nothing is above the repeated ban these days. My brothers, I am in dire need of you. I am preparing for the winter season and also collecting money for my cousin. Please share and donate if you can.
bit.ly/help-mohamed ⬇️ (𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺: bit.ly/2025-09-30)
a little zucchini plant with one large, bright yellow flower emerging from large, dark leaves; between the larger leaves you can see new, curling, bright green leaves and more flower buds. a close-up photo of a bright, beautiful buttery-yellow zucchini flower growing from amid a circle of large, healthy dark green leaves. There are newer leaves and buds close to opening to the left of the open flower. A back view of an open zucchini flower and two nearly open buds, with growing leaves and large, fully grown leaves covering the newer, more delicate growths.
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 19d
thank you to all of mohamed's friends looking out for him. he's found so many good and kind and caring people.

he said once he thought sometimes where his account would be if bsky hadn't deleted so many of his early ones. i said, you should probably write a book when this is over.
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 19d
he's technically back once the internet works again. i just veryyyyyyyy slowlllyyyyyyyyy wrote a requested filler post. new account in the bio, as usual (ha ha)
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 19d
Hello brothers, I have been banned again. I don't know what their goal is.
These days I am preparing for winter, though I haven't finished yet, and taking care of my cousin.
Blue Sky comes and bans me.

Anyway, please share and donate if you can bit.ly/help-mohamed
𝗰𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗰 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱: 810.40/2000
a cleared-out sandy area with a cloth or plastic-ish tent on the left side, held up by poles. this is the spot where the other tin houses will go, i believe. a corner of the smoothed-over sandy area, with a couple of wide, low bowls in the corner between two cloth/treated cloth (?) "walls" held up with poles. A different view from the back of the cleared-out area; again, we see cloth, or treated cloth, as walls and, presumably, roofs, on neighboring tends of different colors. the sun is coming in toward the back corner with the bowls, and the sky is so blue with a few fluffy clouds; you could almost forget why mohamed is clearing out a sandy area, or why his neighbors are living in tents.
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 19d
it sure is. we're on it, i'm just a slow typer today 😥
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 19d
Hello brothers, I have been banned again. I don't know what their goal is.
These days I am preparing for winter, though I haven't finished yet, and taking care of my cousin.
Blue Sky comes and bans me.

Anyway, please share and donate if you can bit.ly/help-mohamed
𝗰𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗰 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱: 810.40/2000
a cleared-out sandy area with a cloth or plastic-ish tent on the left side, held up by poles. this is the spot where the other tin houses will go, i believe. a corner of the smoothed-over sandy area, with a couple of wide, low bowls in the corner between two cloth/treated cloth (?) "walls" held up with poles. A different view from the back of the cleared-out area; again, we see cloth, or treated cloth, as walls and, presumably, roofs, on neighboring tends of different colors. the sun is coming in toward the back corner with the bowls, and the sky is so blue with a few fluffy clouds; you could almost forget why mohamed is clearing out a sandy area, or why his neighbors are living in tents.
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 19d
mohamed's internet was 〽️, or he would've posted on his new²³ account, @maratan-ukhraa.bsky.social.

in 2024, he spent about $7k to built the tin+wood house with reinforced scrap metal.
in 2025, that house without scrap metal will cost about double. but after a year of starving…
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 19d
Hello brothers, I have been banned again. I don't know what their goal is.
These days I am preparing for winter, though I haven't finished yet, and taking care of my cousin.
Blue Sky comes and bans me.

Anyway, please share and donate if you can bit.ly/help-mohamed
𝗰𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗰 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱: 810.40/2000
a cleared-out sandy area with a cloth or plastic-ish tent on the left side, held up by poles. this is the spot where the other tin houses will go, i believe. a corner of the smoothed-over sandy area, with a couple of wide, low bowls in the corner between two cloth/treated cloth (?) "walls" held up with poles. A different view from the back of the cleared-out area; again, we see cloth, or treated cloth, as walls and, presumably, roofs, on neighboring tends of different colors. the sun is coming in toward the back corner with the bowls, and the sky is so blue with a few fluffy clouds; you could almost forget why mohamed is clearing out a sandy area, or why his neighbors are living in tents.
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 20d
MIRROR TIME: see screengrabbed post: mohamed thinks his cousing wil get the call about treatment abroad next week! bit.ly/help-mohamed

the net is $810.40. That's pretty close to $1k, which isn't the hoped-for $2k, but would be a solid sending-off gift from uncle mohamed. can we make it to net $1k?
a screenshot of Mohamed's latest account MOHAMMAD AHMAD @alhudu.bsky.social ✔️ Following Good morning brothers, I send you greetings from Gaza. Please donate to my cousin. I think he will be released for treatment abroad next week. We need $2,000. We have collected about $800. Please share and donate. bit.ly/help-mohamed September 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM © Everybody can reply • Translate 5 reposts 2 quotes 8 likes plus, two photos of zucchhini plants, unless one of them is eggplant? sorry, i don't know anything.
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 21d
real mohamed has returned: @alhudu.bsky.social, and we are blessed to have him.
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 22d
Good [evening]/ How are you my brothers? I send you greetings from Gaza/ My son Abdullah is older now. He is studying in a school that is a tent next to us. Please share and donate and don’t forget my cousin, he needs us these days.
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𝗰𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗰 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱: 760.40/2000 — progress!
two pages from Abdullah's school notebook. the assignment is to color the curves "bright bright," and is meant to illustrate the difference between a lower curve, on the left, and a "top curve," on the right. Abdullah has colored the lower curve blue and the top curve pink. One page of Abdullah's notebook; at the top, the teacher has written "up to the top," and Abdullah has written eight times the same U shape that he had on the earlier page colored in blue. the teacher has written something else that I can't find a reasonable translation of, apologies.
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Farmer Mohamed @farmermohamed.nyc · 23d
🆘 Please I have been blocked on Blue Sky 🆘

All I ask of you is to continue publishing so that my story reaches people and do not forget my cousin/ Thank you all for your sympathy. bit.ly/help-mohamed
We will have zucchini flowers soon.

𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘤 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥: 735.40/2000; 𝘣𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘪𝘵 64.60 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺?
—𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦
a blurry digit pulls back a young, frilly, bright green zucchini leaf to reveal two healthy buds, with what looks like more leaves and potential buds growing from the stem. the larger, darker leaves, which offer the buds and baby leaves shade, are partly in fame, and the sand beneath is a blue of various browns. compared to every other photo taken in Gaza today, it looks like hope. a blurry digit almost out of frame holds a big, dark green zucchini leave out of the way, to take a slightly blurry photo of a zucchinii bud. the plant itself looks healthy and green, withh what looks like another bud concealed behind a stem to this bud's left, and fresh, new baby leaves growing around them. (sincere q from meave: does the small farm give you hope after watching the erasure of Gaza City? it makes me proud to know our brother mohamed)
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