Gazan Children Have Fun On Makeshift Seesaw On Eid

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Gazan children built a makeshift seesaw from a discarded pipe mounted atop the rubble of destroyed buildings in the Jabalia refugee camp, which they say was a way to enjoy the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr – usually a time of celebration. Fourteen-year-old Mohamed Abu al-Qomsan also played the drum and sang songs with other children in the area in the absence of an “atmosphere of Eid or the joy that comes with it,” he said, seven months into Israel’s war on Gaza that has laid much of the enclave to waste.Gazans still in Jabalia and in Gaza City say the war has led to the destruction of the Strip’s parks and amusement facilities where families would gather on Eid to mark the occasion that follows the fasting month of Ramadan.

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