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Annual Eid celebrations

Clearly, the main activity of the annual Eid celebration remains attending a relative's residence. On this particular occasion, relatives make sure to see each other at home.  They are amused by a wide variety of dishes. The sweet flavour of the most significant meal, sewai , seems to be blending with joy and celebration. Even so, traditional recipes are significantly altered for the celebration.  During a visit to a relative's home, it became more apparent that not only did the dishes on the table resemble those of a five-star hotel, but also...  The golden-coloured cutlery placed on the table created the illusion of an upscale hotel. Each item placed on the table served as a reminder of the refined and opulent way of life.

Water crisis in Gaza

Within a period of five short months Israel has reportedly devasted Gaza as the strip presents the semblance of Karbala!

Even water is insufficiently available to the poor Palestinians who may be cursing their fate for such a deplorable condition. 

The war started suddenly and Palestinians were thus made to suffer immensely. No efforts seem to stop the war. Only talks continue without any step for the end of Israel’s five-month military campaign on the Palestinian territory.

Today Palestinians are reportedly lacking food, water and medical aids. They have been finding refuge in camps of southern Gaza city of Rafah. 

They are nowhere to go. Families lost, houses fully destroyed in bombings and there lies dark days for the remnant inhabitants.

Surprisingly, sullen faces flock to collect the precious water in Gaza strip as the people there struggle hard to collect this water. 

It is the broken Palestinians who adequately know how difficult it is to gain the water in the war-ravaged country. How can humans live without the basic needs?

They require the water for washing clothes and undeniably for the purpose of hygiene. Long power cuts have certainly affected the water supplies.

Reportedly, they anyhow manage to gather at least a barrel with 20 litres of water, which was supposed to last a day. 

Every day or two, a water truck comes to the area, and people gather to fill water from it. 

The drawback is that the lorry stops for only 30  short minutes. Numbers of people running with barrels happen to be more and filling every barrel takes enough time. 

Grief-stricken people express that they should require enough time for everyone in the west of Rafah city to get water or  for those staying inside a tent in the west of the city in southern Gaza.

Their tale of woes could be further grasped when they stated: The small amount of water they luckily get, will not be relatively or sufficiently enough to use the toilet. So how could they think of using water for washing and cleaning. But who cares?



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