APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza - 21 April 2021. Palestinian deaf girls, wear protective and maskes prepare pastries and pizza for distribution to poor families and latecomers on the roads, during the fasting month of Ramadan, at the Hamm Hamm Youth Center, in the Maghazi camp, in the center of Gaza strip
01.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amani Qassem, a member of the Department of Hamm Youth Center
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For needy families, the month of Ramadan is an opportunity to receive financial donations and food aid, which help them endure the hardships of life in Gaza, which has been deteriorating over the past 15 years as a result of the Israeli blockade and internal division.
More than two-thirds of the Gaza Strip’s population of some 2 million people suffers from poverty or extreme poverty, according to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
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