Today marks the first day of Eid-ul-Fitr at Palestine, a time that is traditionally filled with joy and celebration. But in Gaza, the sound of bombardment and artillery shelling drowns out the call to prayer, reports Al Jazeera.
Children who used to wear new clothes on this day are hungry and traumatised. People have no sense of safety and no festive meals to prepare. Since dawn today, Israeli strikes have continued to devastate neighbourhoods.
Instead of gathering for celebrations, people have visited the graves of their loved ones in the early hours. At one morgue at Al-Aqsa Hospital, I saw a Palestinian mother who brought her daughter to bid farewell to her father, who was killed in a strike on Saturday.
There is no end in sight to the misery on the ground in Gaza.
Bd-pratidin English/Tanvir Raihan
