Gaza City: For the second consecutive year, the traditional Eidul Fitr celebrations marking the end of Ramazan were absent in Gaza on Sunday, since the residents of the Palestinian territory woke up with the roar of the Israeli bombing that killed at least 20 Palestinians.
“EID, which once a day of family meetings and visits, has now become a day of farewells and funerals,” said Nahla Abu Mata, a 28 -year -old mother.
Like hundreds of thousands of residents of Gaza, she has been displaced from her home in northern Gaza and now lives in the southern area of Khan Yunis.
“The mosques where we once pray have been reduced to lots of rubble, and the places where we used to meet now are covered with ruins and bodies,” he said.
Three young girls, with eid clothes, among eight killed by Israeli strikes
Five children between eight dead
Gaza rescue teams said AFP That eight people, including five children, were killed in an Israeli air strike prior to dawn in Khan Yunis on Sunday.
“Instead of waking up with the sound of the Takbirs (eid sentences), we woke up with the roar of air attacks and explosions,” said Abu kill.
At dawn, many Gazanes gathered in different parts of the territory to offer traditional morning sentences.
Some deactivated their prayer carpets in the streets in the middle of the rubble, while others prayed inside the mosques, including the Omari mosque, once again, whose walls have now collapsed under the bombing.
Many prayed with improvised tents that protect tens of thousands of displaced gazanes, living in terrible humanitarian conditions.
In the Nuseirat refugee camp in downtown Gaza, several residents visited the tombs of loved ones killed in the war.
While praying, the sounds of artillery fire and the buzz of military drones filled the air.
Al Jazeera cited the health authorities saying that Israeli military attacks in Gaza killed 20 people, including five children, since Sunday morning. Three young people killed in an air incursion in Al-Mawasi are seen in a bloody and apparently verified footage with new clothes on the occasion of Eidul Fitr, added the report.
How much more?
Ezzedine Mousa, a resident of the city of Gaza, described an overwhelming feeling of fear grabbing the region.
“People are afraid to visit each other because a rocket could attack at any time, claiming their lives,” he said.
“The eyes of our children reflect their fear, but we do our best to keep them happy with any little one we have.”
Israel resumed his military campaign through Gaza on March 18, shaking a fragile truce of a week.
Since then, more than 900 people have been killed throughout Gaza, according to the Ministry of Health of the Territory led by Hamas. Since October 2023, Israel in an abrasing military campaign in Gaza killed at least 50,277 people, most of them women and children.
Members of the Red Moon killed
The Palestine Society Red Crescent Society confirmed on Sunday that 11 more bodies were found in the city of Rafah de Gaza, including six identified as its members and four as personnel of the Civil Defense Agency, Al Jazeera reported.
The ambulance service said that three of his doctors and a civil defense response ‘remain missing’.
Doctors and witnesses reported that Israeli air attacks continued in Khan Yunis and some other parts of Gaza throughout the day.
An air strike in Rafah wounded two children, according to doctors.
“The world rejoices in Eid while our sons and daughters are in morgues. How long will this tragedy continue?” Mohamed Al-Qadi said, who lost his sister and nephew in the Israeli strike prior to Sunday dawn against Khan Yunis.
Eid of sadness
“It’s the eid of sadness,” said Adel Al-Shaer in the central city of Deir El-Balah in Gaza, Al Jazeera reported.
Al-Shaer said he lost 20 members of his extended family in Israeli strikes since the offensive in Gaza began, including four young nephews only a few days ago.
“We lost our loved ones, our children, our lives and our future. We lost our students, our schools and our institutions. We lost everything,” he added, crying.
Posted in Dawn, March 31, 2025
