'Eid of sadness': Palestinians in Gaza mark Muslim holiday with dwindling food and no end to war
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinians in Gaza marked the normally festive Eid al-Fitr on Sunday with rapidly dwindling food supplies and mourning for several children killed in Israel's latest airstrikes.
There was anger as the bodies of 14 emergency responders were recovered in the southern city of Rafah a week after an Israeli attack, which the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies called the 'single most deadly attack on Red Cross Red Crescent workers anywhere in the world since 2017.'
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