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Muslim worshippers are ferried on a wooden cart to visit graves of relatives after the special morning prayers starting Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at the Wadi-al-Salam cemetery in Iraq’s shrine city of Najaf on April 10, 2024. Gazans did their best to celebrate the end of Ramadan in the driving rain on Wednesday, 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. He said they went to pray at the graves of family members killed in the war before going to the Ibn Taymiyyah mosque for Eid prayers.Advertisement
“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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