Palestinians in Gaza prepare to mark Eid amid the hardships and misery of war

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(5 Jun 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip - 4 June 2025 1. Various of girls checking their accessories to wear for Eid 2. Mother Rasha giving her daughter sunglasses and necklaces 3. Close of girl wearing bracelets 4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rasha Abu Souleyma, displaced from Rafah: "I can't buy them clothes or anything. I took some accessories from our home for them and hope it would make them happy. I used to bring meat in Eid so they would be happy, but now we can't bring meat and I can't even feed the girls with bread." 5. Various of Rasha and her daughters trying on their old clothes for Eid 6. Various of Rasha and her daughter putting clothes in a bag 7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rasha Abu Souleyma, displaced from Rafah: "Four Eids have came by during the war, without any happiness or joy, but only blood and martyrs. We hear nothing but airstrikes, martyrs, and wounded, warplanes, tanks. There are no public callings for Eid prayer (Takbeerat). The market was joy before the war, now there is no market to go to" 8. Wide of Mustafa family sitting inside their tent 9. Various of Mustafa's children playing with sand 10. Wide of the family 11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Moustafa, displaced from Rafah al-Shaboura: "There is no Eid atmosphere at all. It's all war. No Eid. Before the war, we used to make Eid sacrifice and take the children to the market for clothes shopping. We used to make cookies and sweets, and used to take the kids to buy them clothes." 12. Various of mother Karima Najeili, dressing her daughter in a traditional Palestinian dress inside her tent 13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Karima Najeili, displaced from Rafah: "This is the fourth Eid that has passed us by, two Eids Al-Fitr and two Eids Al-Adha, thank God, during these four Eids we did not feel any joy at all, neither on Eid Al-Fitr nor on Eid Al-Adha, there was no atmosphere, before children were walking in the streets watching the sacrifices, during these four Eids we as Palestinians did not see any kind of joy, no sacrifice, no cookies, no buying Eid clothes or anything," 14. Various of displaced children swinging on hanging ropes 15. Various of displaced children playing with ball near tents 16. Various of of tents of displaced people STORYLINE: Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are anticipating the Islamic Eidal-Adha holiday and are scrambling to do what they can to resemble the joyous occasion celebrated by Muslims around the world before the war and humanitarian crisis. Eid al-Adha marks the Prophet Ibrahim’s test of faith and his willingness to sacrifice his son as an act of submission to God. During the holiday, Muslims slaughter sheep or cattle and distribute some meat to poor people. Families buy their children new clothes and local sweets and get together to mark the occasion. But the war in the tiny Palestinian enclave and the humanitarian crisis that followed Hamas’ attack on southern Israeli in October 2023 has changed everything about the blissful moments that come with religious and cultural holidays. Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are displaced and are struggling to survive due to a shortage of aid imposed by Israel’s blockade of the strip. Food prices have soared. In the large, tented settlements for the displaced that stretch across the coastal area of Muwasi, mothers rummage through belongings to find accessories and clothes their children can wear. Instead of music and fireworks is the buzzing sound of Israeli military drones resonating across the crammed camp. AP video by Mohammad Jahjouh Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/61a22ec4601d4d2e8caafe07dada0ad7