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Palestinian women show their IDs at an Israeli checkpoint on their way to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, on the first day off the Muslim holy month of Ramadan near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Friday, July 20, 2012. Muslims from Morocco to Afghanistan are steeling themselves for the toughest Ramadan in more than three decades with no food or drink, not even a sip of water, for 14 hours a day during the hottest time of the year. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)