(2 Mar 2025)
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Jabaliya, Northern Gaza Strip – 1 March 2025
1. Various of Jabaliya resident, Fatima Al-Absi, carrying empty pots with her family as they walk among rubble to go and fill the containers with water
2. Various of Al-Absi and her family carrying containers and waiting for water
3. Close of containers
4. Various of Al-Absi and her family carrying their containers filled with water
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatima Al-Absi, Jabaliya resident:
"This Ramadan, I lost my home and I lost the most important thing, which is my husband and my daughter’s husband. They are the most important things, then the home. I and the girls live. I am forced to enter the house because I have no other shelter. I am forced. If I was not forced, I would not have lived in it. But where do I go? "
6. Absi cleaning inside of their damaged home
7. Various of man carrying blankets out of rubble
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatima Al-Absi, Jabaliya resident:
"This Ramadan is sad. Look at the destruction, the martyrs are still under the rubble, they didn’t all get them out. Even my husband was martyred, I lost him. I remember him every moment, every minute, in every prayer. When you sit at the table and he’s not there. We used to wait for him, we would break our fast with dates until he finished the Maghrib prayer in the mosque and come back to break our fast together. Now, what a pity, there is no one to wait for, whether it’s my husband or my daughter’s husband, may God have mercy on them."
9. Various of destruction
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatima Al-Absi, Jabaliya resident:
"We are afraid that the war will return. We don’t want war, we want peace and security. We want nothing but peace and security, and for all countries to stand with us. We are afraid that the war will return again, oh God, don’t let it return and we won’t see it. Those we lost and left are enough."
11. Various of Al-Absi family gathering to read Quran
12. Various of Al-Absi family praying
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatima Al-Absi, Jabaliya resident:
"Every year on the first day we used to cook Molokhia, chicken, soups and salads. But today the situation doesn’t allow us to go to the market or anything because the situation is difficult. Until God makes things easier, thank God, because I have no one to help me at home and there is no money or salaries, there is nothing."
14. Various of Al-Absi and her daughters preparing dough
15. Mid of pot on fire
16. Various of Al-Absi family baking bread
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatima Al-Absi, Jabaliya resident:
"Life is not easy. We have suffered a lot. For a year and four months we have been in the north. There is no food, no drink, nothing, but now there are goods available in the markets, such as frozen chicken and meat. But the situation is difficult and we do not have the ability to buy it."
19. Various of Al-Absi preparing food for Iftar
20. Various of Al-Absi family sitting around table eating
STORYLINE:
Before the Israel-Hamas war, the Muslim holy month of Ramadan was a festive time of increased worship, social gatherings and cheer for Fatima Al-Absi.
Together with her husband, the resident of Jabaliya in Gaza said she used to do Ramadan shopping, visit relatives and head to the mosque for prayers.
But the war has shredded many of the familiar and cherished threads of Ramadan as Al-Absi once knew it: her husband and a son-in-law have been killed, her home was damaged and burnt and the mosque she attended during Ramadan destroyed, she said.
"We are afraid that the war will return," Al-Absi said.
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