Sumaia al-Ajrami, another woman in Gaza, expressed grief over the absence of her mother for the festival, who was killed during an Israeli raid last year."Israel prevented us from spending the feast with our mother, even though she loved its atmosphere and spent long days preparing for it," the 20-year-old lady said to
The New Arab."We want to live in peace and security, and for Israel to stop waging wars against us in the Gaza Strip," she added, stressing that "Palestinians in Gaza have paid dearly because of the deteriorating political situation between Israel and the armed Palestinian factions."
