This time no one will come to see us: the joyless Eid of Gaza’s orphans
Due to the war, this Eid is not like other Eids. We have lost our entire family. Our Eid joy has been taken away.
The cries of the children of the war-torn Palestinian city of Rafah
There are currently 43,000 children in Gaza who are missing one or both parents. British Broadcasting Corporation reports.
Gaza ( Web News)
The children of the war-affected Palestinian city of Rafah say that their Eid joy has been taken away. At a time when
Muslims around the world are preparing to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr, the children of Rafah say. Because of the war, this
Eid is not like other Eids. We lost our entire family. According to a report by the British Broadcasting Corporation,
the United Nations Children’s Fund says that one percent of the displaced population in Gaza are children who have
been orphaned or are now orphaned. There is no one left to care for them. According to the United Nations agency
UNICEF, there is no camp in Gaza where a child has not lost one or both parents. Liyan and her 18-month-old sister
Siwar. He is the only two surviving members of his family. His entire family was martyred in a bomb blast in Al-Ahli
Hospital in Gaza last October. That night, 35 members of Lian’s family, including his five sisters, brothers, lost their
lives. About that night. While talking, Lian says that our family had just reached the hospital an hour and a half ago
when two missiles fell on us. When I woke up, my family had been torn apart. Hundreds of people were martyred in
this attack on the hospital in Gaza. Lian now lives in a shack with her aunt and cousin in the Rafah area of southern
Gaza. Before the war, Lian used to buy clothes for Eid with her parents, make biscuits known locally as mamol. used
to and enjoyed family feasts. Lian says that there will be no feast this year. No one will come to visit us this Eid.
Millions of people have been left jobless by the war in Gaza and money is in dire straits, yet Lian’s 24-year-old cousin
Ali and her 18-month-old sister are taking care and trying to get them clothes and toys as much as they can afford.
Lian’s cousins used to live with 43 members of their family in a building in Zeyton, Gaza, and now the family is the
only survivor. The people live in a hut in southern Gaza. Like Lian, her 14-year-old cousin Mahmoud is also among
the children who have been orphaned by the ongoing war in Gaza. He was martyred in the attack. He survived the
bombing because he had gone out to fetch water for his family.
He recalls that night saying, “When I came back, I found everyone dead. Before the war started, Mahmood was a
Dreaming of becoming a bodybuilding champion and preparing for a world bodybuilding competition in Egypt, he
now has only one dream left and that is to return to his home in northern Gaza to live with his parents. They say that
this Eid will be absolutely fun. We used to decorate the streets with lights, but today we might decorate our shelter
with a rope. According to a Palestinian organization, there are currently 43,000 children in Gaza who are deprived of
one or both parents. General conditions. On the occasion of Eid, lavish feasts are organized and all kinds of food is
prepared, but in the war situation, the children of Gaza have only memories of the past. And salted fish were a must-
decorate for Passover, but the biscuits made on this festival of joy were the center of attention for children and adults
alike. A Palestinian man, Majid Nasr, and his family in a shack in a homeless population in Rafah. About 10 women
have gathered to make biscuits this Eid. Majid is 20 years old and used to live in northern Gaza before the war. He
arranged to make biscuits so that he could restore the joy of Eid to the children living in this population and their
families. It has increased three to four times over the years. These young people are also distributing cakes to about
60 families living in this population. Currently, about 1.7 million homeless people are living in very difficult
conditions on the Gaza Strip. And for food and drink, they depend only on external aid because food and water have
almost disappeared in their areas. Even in the most difficult conditions, Ahmed Mushta and his team are trying to
help the orphans of Gaza. to bring some joy to them and that’s why they plan to show a circus in the communities in
the northern areas of Gaza on the occasion of Eid. There are about 300,000 people in Gaza who are facing the threat
of famine. Ahmad Mushta says that we We want to bring joy to the faces of children so that they can celebrate Eid.
This circus was founded in 2011 and used to teach magic tricks to children, but the building where this work was
being done was destroyed during the war. Before the start of the war, Ahmed Mushta and his 10-member team used
to organize circuses for orphaned children in Gaza parks. If we do, there will be ruins in the background of all this.
Ahmed Mushta says that whenever we go from one place to another, there are dangers hovering over us, we have
been saved many times and injured many times. But now we only care that we have to provide psychological support
to these children so that they can forget the troubles of war.