Date: 12 / 10 / 2007
Gaza – Ma'an – The people of the Gaza described Ramadan as a miserable month, not because of the task of fasting between daylight hours, but because of the siege imposed on the two and a half million people living in the open air prison that is the Gaza Strip.
Nor has Eid Al-Fitr brought much joy to Gaza's inhabitants. At a time when people travel to visit family and friends, Gazans are not allowed to leave the Strip to see their relatives in the West Bank and even in other parts of the world.
Zuzu Fakhr Al Dayeh left all her children in the United Arab Emirates, returning to Gaza to see her sick mother. She has now been in Gaza six months, denied permission to return to her children in the Emirates. She said spending Eid Al-Fitr away from her children is devastating.
Bethlehem - Ma'an – Palestinian Muslims in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip celebrated Eid Al-Fitr, on Friday.
Eid Al-Fitr is very much a social occasion when family and friends get together to enjoy specially prepared foods, including cakes filled with dates and nuts, after a month of fasting.
The Eid Al-Fitr is a three day holiday in Palestine. On the first day worshippers attend a twenty minute ceremony in the mosque before going to visit friends.
However, in Palestine the Eid festival is always tinged with sadness. People remember those who have died and others who cannot be with their families as they are in Israeli detention.
from Ma'anNews
Eid Mubarak to All Palestine!
From Occupied Palestine:
We have suffered too much for too long. We will not accept apartheid masked as peace. We will settle for no less than our freedom.
=( la 7wla wla qiwata ila billah..May Allah make justice steadfast -- Allah doesn't love the wicked...change will come when the Muslims awaken from their long sleep!
Ameen
Text without context is pretext If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him
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