Palestinians celebrate Eid al-Fitr in Gaza

PressTV - Palestinians celebrate Eid al-Fitr in Gaza:

Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:11AM GMT
Ashraf Shannon, Press TV, Gaza

As millions of Muslims around the world prepare to celebrate the joys of Eid al-Fitr, Palestinians in Gaza started to celebrate the joyous holiday which marks the end of the fasting holy month of Ramadan.

In the impoverished and blockaded coastal enclave most people headed to cheap make shift recreational parks with their families.

Only few well off Gazans were fortunate enough to enjoy the fancy places. According to international reports, about 75 percent of Gaza's 1.5 million people are suffering different levels of unemployment and poverty.

On the eve of Eid al-Fitr most Gazans were unable to buy new clothes for the holiday or the various traditional types of Turkish delights and chocolates which piled up in Gaza's stores, but only few people seemed to be interested as government employees haven't received their salaries.

The governments both in Gaza and the West Bank who pay salaries for 114,000 government employees in Gaza, suffer from a severe financial crisis.

Israel conducts on-and-off attacks on Gaza and Palestinians are left to accept living with the minimum of the basic needs that they require.

The feast of Eid al-Fitr also comes only a few days after a wave of cross-border violence in which Israel killed nearly thirty Palestinians and injured dozens more.

For Gazans the Eid al-Fitr celebrations will undoubtedly fall very short of being a celebration in full due to multiple problems facing them .




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