"On Eid last year, we played, celebrated and rejoiced together," recalled Tala Abu Amr, a seven-year-old girl living in a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Dozens of worshippers in Gaza have gathered to hold prayers for Eid al-Fitr, by the ruins of the al-Farouk mosque in Rafah. The mosque was destroyed in February, during an Israeli offensive.

The voice of Gaza on Eid is the sight of dozens of children carrying empty pots, chanting and magnifying the Eid takbirs, in a scene that burns the soul, waiting for the peoples around the world ...

Last summer, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip celebrated the Muslim holiday of Eid al Adha the way it's supposed to be: with large family feasts, meat shared with those less fortunate, and new ...

AFP/Gaza Strip Published on June 16, 2024 | 06:19 PM In tents in the stifling heat and in bombed-out mosques, Gazans marked Sunday the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, devoid of the ...

In the past two months, Palestinian journalist Yara Eid has lost family members, friends, colleagues and her childhood home to relentless Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip. "I've lived through ...

says Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, while cautioning it would be a "disastrous mistake" for Israel to isolate the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip once it completes its Gaza pullout. Prime ...

with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Gaza withdrawal plan moving forward. But Sharon and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak kept cool heads after those incidents, and both parties were able ...

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