Gazans did their best to celebrate the end of Ramadan in the driving rain, as the war raged on with 14 killed, including children, in a strike on their home, the Hamas-run territory's health ministry said.
Gazans did their best to celebrate the end of Ramadan in the driving rain, as the war raged on with 14 killed, including children, in a strike on their home, the Hamas-run territory's health ministry said.
But with the United Nations warning the besieged territory is on the verge of famine, there was little to feast on for the 2.4 million residents of Gaza, up to 1.5 million of whom are crammed into camps around the far-southern city of Rafah. "We prepared sweets and biscuits from the aid we got from the UN and now we are giving it to the children. We try to be happy, but it is difficult."
"We are tired and weary - enough, enough of war and destruction," she said, adding that Gazans were desperate for a truce. Meanwhile in Jerusalem, tens of thousands of worshippers poured into the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, for morning prayers.
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