Shafaqna English- Gazans had little reason to celebrate on Sunday (30 Mar 2025) as they began observing Eid Al-Fitr, facing rapidly dwindling food supplies and no resolution to the ongoing Israeli war.
Day of Eid Al-Fitr is traditionally filled with joy and celebration, but in Gaza, the sound of bombardment and artillery shelling drowns the call to prayer.
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. At least 20 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in Israeli bombardment on the first day of Eid Al-Fitr, health officials say
Many held prayers outside demolished mosques on the Eid Al-Fitr holiday, marking the end of the fasting Month of Ramadhan.
“It’s the Eid of sadness,” Adel Al-Shaer said after attending outdoor prayers in the central town of Deir Al-Balah. “We lost our loved ones, our children, our lives, and our futures. We lost our students, our schools, and our institutions. We lost everything.”