Gaza’s Sorrowful Eid: Hunger and Ruin After Months of War

People in Gaza suffered a lot the time of celebrating the major Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha. This was mainly due to the escalating military conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip led by Hamas. Camps; people had to dwell in tents, avoiding direct sun and building temporary shelters which resulted in so much heat. Some others congregated at the various mosques that had been affected by the bombs and fighting.

What a delight, indeed there was no joy left for Eid 

A 57-year-old woman named Malakiya Salman was shown; she had to abandon her home and now lived in a tent in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza and was portrayed as being sad. As she sang she mentioned that there is no joy now there is none it has been stripped off.

Palestinian father in a war-torn Gaza

As for children, the gifts usually received during such a time include new clothes as well as some amount of money. However this year, after eight months of the vicious war by the Israelis, the usual morale-boosting joy of Eid has again Robbed off Gazan Families. As it was mentioned above, there is no happiness in the story and the characters are full of sorrow and desperation only.

Former Resident: “We Are Truly Dying”

Fighting had ravaged huge swaths of the tightly packed territory of Gaza, home to more than 2 million people at the time. inhabitants to vacate their homes; 4 million people to be displaced. Because the situation had escalated to new heights, it was announced that everyone would soon suffer from starvation. Both Qurate Salman and My-leen clung on wishing that the world would intervene to stop the war saying they were truly dying and their children were suffering a great deal.

Military will temporarily stop its fighting to receive help

On Sunday morning, the military was at a halt the operations near the city of Rafah for the next 24 hours. This “tactical pause” was to permit humanitarian aid to Get through to the needy people of Gaza. The news reporters get to report that there was no shelling or bombing from dawn up to the time they were filing the report. However, the military clarified that this setting did not entail a situation complete ceasefire in the south of the gaza strip.

The “Strange” Silence 

Life has not returned to normal in the Gaza Strip; however, an unusual quietude prevailed in the city from the early morning with no firing or booms heard. A man named Haitham al-Ghura, a thirty-year-old resident of the area commented on the fact that no shootout and no bombing was happening; it felt very odd to him.