(6 Mar 2025)
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Gaza City – 6 March 2025
1. Various of hundreds of Palestinians gathering in Gaza City ahead of a mass Iftar
2. Families breaking fast, sound of the adhan (call to prayer) in the background
3. Various of families including women and children breaking fast
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Manal Daher, Gaza resident:
"What we are feeling today is spectacular, I am very happy, I feel like the sadness, sorrow and separation, the circumstances we went through because of war, were all changed by this atmosphere. I feel like being in Egypt now (where Ramadan is most celebrated in theArab world) because all of the happiness we are feeling and this atmosphere, last year was all war, we are scared while eating and there were also a lot of lack of food, we didn’t have what we are having today. Thanks God, for the blessing we are witnessing this Ramadan, seriously I cannot describe the atmosphere"
5. Various drone shots of mass Iftar among rubble and tents ++MUTE++
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Belal al-Darw, Gaza resident:
"No, of course I didn’t expect this (to happen) during war, we didn’t know if we are going to live to the next day, we didn’t also have a guarantee that we are going to meet our loved ones, friends, neighbors and family. So, when we met them afterwards, it was a great happiness, happiness that I can’t describe"
7. Various of families during mass iftar
8. SOUNDBITE(Arabic) Khetam Soliman, Gaza resident:
"This war was the furthest thing expected and all this destruction was not in mind or anticipated, the war erupted in the blink of an eye, we lived a hard life and we passed through many difficult situations, this event was really nice and people were very happy, you can see happiness on every face, young or old. We really needed to change our mood and what we were feeling"
9. Various drone shots of mass Iftar among rubble and tents ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
Dining on long makeshift tables and among the rubble of where their homes once stood, hundreds of Palestinians gathered for a mass Iftar in Gaza City on Thursday.
A number of aid organisations helped prepare meals for iftar, with many families attending while sitting among the ruins of their former homes.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have returned to Gaza City following the January 27th ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, yet those attending the event were happy to feel different emotions from those brought by war.
"What we are feeling today is spectacular, I am very happy, I feel like the sadness, sorrow and separation, the circumstances we went through because of war were all changed by this atmosphere" said Gaza resident Manal Daher.
The Iftar meal was set against Wednesday’s regional developments where regional leaders endorsed a proposal to rebuild the territory without depopulating at the Arab Summit in Cairo, Egypt.
The endorsement runs counter to U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to resettle Gaza’s roughly 2 million Palestinians in other countries and redevelop it as a beach destination.
Israel has halted the entry of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies into the Gaza Strip, as it aims to pressure Hamas into accepting an alternative arrangement for the ceasefire and the release of Israeli hostages, six weeks into the truce.
After more than 16 months of war, Gaza’s population is entirely dependent on trucked-in food and other aid.
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AP video by Abdel Kareem Hana (non aerial shots)
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