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Challenges of breaking fast in Gaza
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Challenges of breaking fast in Gaza

Abdallah Alsayed، Zuheir Dola 3 دقيقة قراءة

Throughout the Gaza Strip, the struggle for survival entails daily forms of personal misery. Securing a meal with which to break Ramadan fasting presents a challenge to everyone given the destruction of the basic components of a comfortable and dignified life.

In Rafah, which houses the majority of Gaza’s displaced population, Palestinians crowd markets to buy ready-made food sold by displaced people on sidewalks and in small shops. Families unable to prepare their own meals due to their lack of means for cooking rely on food prepared by others. Similar scenes are found in Nuseirat camp’s main market. Here, people not only buy ready-made food, but those who lack kitchen equipment also have their purchased ingredients prepped for them.

The sidewalk stretching from the Awdeh square to the Nijmeh square in Rafah City is lined with tents made of repurposed cloth and which house people displaced from Khan Younis. Lacking stoves and gas canisters, they light fires with scraps of paper and tree branches to cook their meals in worn-out pots, using scarce and therefore expensive ingredients.

Even families who are relatively well-off find that their money has little value against the wild prices of market goods. Despite the income of many having been cut off, prices have risen at least ten-fold, and many of the displaced are unable to make purchases, resorting instead to free meals provided by a handful of charities and distributed in limited amounts.

Falafel, a popular Ramadan meal throughout central and southern Gaza, is prepared with a wood fire.
Displaced Palestinians prepare and sell food on the street.
Displaced Palestinians purchase ready-made food because they lack the means to prepare their own.
A vendor sells the popular dish maftul beside tents in Rafah.
A child displaced from Khan Younis to Rafah helps his mother prepare a meal inside their tent on the sidewalk.
Displaced families use paper scraps to light fires for cooking their Ramadan meals.
Families prepare meals outside an UNRWA school that houses the displaced in Rafah.
Food is prepared among the hospital beds of the injured in the European Hospital in Khan Younis.
Families in the Mirage tent area between Rafah and Khan Younis cook with clay ovens that are fueled by scraps of paper and tree branches.
Outside a shop that has become their place of refuge, a displaced family in Nuseirat camp prepares bread on a metal plate heated by flames fueled by cardboard scraps.
#Israeli aggression on Gaza 2023 #panorama
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