APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Maghazi - 10 May 2021. Palestinian deaf girls, wear protective and maskes prepare traditional date-filled mini cakes, ahead of Eid al Fitr, at the Hamm Association, in the Maghazi camp, in the center of Gaza strip
01.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amany Qasem
STORYLINE
Eid al-Fitr this year is different in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Muslim's holy fasting month of Ramadan when faithfuls abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and sexual activities from dawn to dusk.
Gaza’s 2-million population remains under “remote control” occupation and a strict siege, which has destroyed the local economy, strangled Palestinian livelihoods, plunged them into unprecedented rates of unemployment and poverty, and cut off from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories and the wider world.
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