{"id":19003,"date":"2024-03-12T06:02:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T06:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=19003"},"modified":"2024-03-12T06:02:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T06:02:28","slug":"we-are-already-fasting-palestinians-in-gaza-observe-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/03\/we-are-already-fasting-palestinians-in-gaza-observe-ramadan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We are already fasting\u2019, Palestinians in Gaza observe Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Radwan Abdel-Hai, a displaced Palestinian sheltering in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza told the AFP news agency \u201cwe are already fasting\u201d.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"card-live__content\">\n<div class=\"wysiwyg-content\">\n<div id=\"wysiwyg\" class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content css-1kw180w\">\n<p>\u201cBeyond food, this year, we have no Ramadan. Each family has a martyr or an injured person,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>In the south of the Gaza Strip, 33-year-old Randa Baker told AFP \u201cRamadan this year is starvation, pain, and loss,\u201d as she served her family a simple meal pieced together from charity and humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who should have been on the table with us have gone,\u201d said Baker, whose husband was killed along with 31 other people when an Israeli air strike flattened their and their neighbours\u2019 homes in Gaza City last year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19005\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19005\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19005\" src=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/gaza.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/gaza.jpg 770w, https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/gaza-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/gaza-768x556.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Israel Border Police patrolled the streets of Old Jerusalem and the gates leading to Al-Aqsa Mosque on Monday night as Palestinians observed the first night of Ramadan [Atef Safadi\/EPA-EFE]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Ramadan in Gaza \u2013 Palestinians break fast amid rubble<\/h3>\n<p>Palestinians have broken their fasts on the first day of Ramadan but in Gaza, not everyone has food.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli restrictions on food and medicine entering the Strip have led to catastrophic levels of hunger in the south and imminent famine in the north. The number of Palestinians who have starved to death in the besieged enclave has now risen to 25.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018A lot of people are afraid to go to the mosques\u2019 after Gaza attacks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"card-live__content\">\n<div class=\"wysiwyg-content\">\n<div id=\"wysiwyg\" class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content css-1kw180w\">\n<p>Al Jazeera spoke to Mahmoud Al-Qeshwi, an English teacher who volunteers at a soup kitchen, on what life is like in Rafah on the first day of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people are afraid to go the mosques because a lot of mosques were attacked,\u201d Al-Qeshwi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very lonely and miserable situation,\u201d he added. \u201cWe try our best to provide food for these people to relieve pain, not all of our attempts are in vain, but it\u2019s not enough at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radwan Abdel-Hai, a displaced Palestinian sheltering in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza told the AFP news agency \u201cwe are already fasting\u201d. \u201cBeyond food, this year, we have no Ramadan. Each family has a martyr or an injured person,\u201d she said. In the south of the Gaza Strip, 33-year-old Randa Baker told AFP \u201cRamadan this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":19006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,194,200,982,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-world","category-democracy-human-rights","category-international","category-headline"],"views":58,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19007,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19003\/revisions\/19007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}