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Layan Masri

Layan Masri is a Palestinian student living in Ramallah and studying at Birzeit University.

A Palestinian from the herding community of Al Hadidya in the Jordan Valley herds livestock September 12, 2011. Struggling to survive on the land, al Hadidiya is an example of a community at the sharp end of life in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and contrasts with the relative prosperity of the Palestinian Authority's administrative capital in Ramallah, where new government buildings symbolize efforts to build institutions ready for statehood. To match Insight: PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL/STATEHOOD. Picture taken

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