this project. Colonies made our problems worse. Before we had hope, we used to feel that water would reach us one day, but now, we know that this will not happen. Water costs us so much in this town, one cubic meter of water costs nine or ten shekel ($2.50 or $3.00). So, I don’t feel like other women in other towns and villages where one cubic meter of water costs from two to three shekel ($ 0.55 to $0.80). I can’t use water like they do. I have to plan how to do the dishes in advance and how much water I can use. If I invite people over, I also have to think in advance, and budget that I will have to pay 20 to 30 shekel ($5.50 to $8.50) for the extra water used that day. One time my sisters came to visit me to have lunch and I found them doing the dishes using the water from the tap in the kitchen. I felt like I was dying when I saw them. I immediately told them to stop; I told them that using olive oil is cheaper than using all of this water. Even if I want to invite people over in Ramadan, the holy month, I buy plastic plates, cups and cutlery because it’s cheaper than using water for the dishes. Most of the time when I want to do the dishes I don’t use water from the tap, I use a cup and a bucket. I also make my children use a cup and a bucket when they want to take a shower because it’s cheaper than using the actual shower. If one of them is using the shower, I keep shouting at them to finish their shower and I keep telling them, “Come on it’s enough”. The other day my son had a shower and I kept shouting at him to finish it quickly and save some water. When he was done, I told him, I hope you had a nice shower and he answered, “How can I have a nice shower when you are shouting all the time, ‘the water, the water’!” I have to tell my children not to change their clothes a lot because I’m scared I’ll have to wash them and use water. I also take the dirty clothes to my parent’s house; I put the dirty clothes in the car and drive to another town because it’s cheaper to wash them over there than at home. My son keeps telling me than he wants to move out of the town and go live in his grandparent’s house in another town because they have water over there. When we want to wash the carpets and the blankets, we all get together and go to the wells nearby the town. We go do the washing and come back. Where does this still happen today? People are going to the moon and we are still begging for water. All the women in the town have short hair; we all keep cutting our hair because we can’t afford to have long hair. We don’t have water for it so even our hairstyles are affected by the water. Israel wants us out of our homes, lands, and even out of our country. This is what Israel wants and unfortunately, I don’t wish that my sons and daughters 46