No Ramadan joy, respite for families in Gaza City destroyed by Israel

Nisreen Nassar and her family, like many other Palestinians, continue to live in schools and makeshift shelters.

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Just before sunset on Thursday, Nisreen Nassar crouched over her makeshift oven, burning wood and scraps of plastic to bake bread for her family so they could break their fast.

Four months after the United States-brokered “ceasefire” came into effect in October, and as US President Donald Trump convened the first meeting of his Board of Peace on Thursday, she wasn’t expecting to be sheltering with her family in an abandoned school and cooking on an open fire during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

No Ramadan joy, respite for families in Gaza City destroyed by Israel

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