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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Joseph Stepansky

In Washington, DC: Celebrating Ramadan, protesting Israel’s siege of Gaza

Iftar at a protest in front of the Israeli embassy, in Washington, DC, the United States [Joseph Stepansky/Al Jazeera]

Washington, DC – Forty-eight folding chairs, but will it be enough?

“It’s OK, some of us will stand,” said 60-year-old Haitham Arafat, a soft-spoken, bespectacled man in a keffiyeh and a canary yellow shirt.

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