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Ramadan 2024: Palestinians observe fast amid Israel's war in Gaza

Updated On: 15 March, 2024 03:59 PM IST | Ainie Rizvi

As we enter the fourth day of Ramadan 2024, Palestinians struggle to avail basic necessities like food, water and access to holy sites to offer namaz. Despite the famine and devastation inflicted by Israel upon Gaza, Palestinians display grit by observing fast during the holy month of Ramadan. Scroll for more

A Palestinian vendor sells falafel in a market during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

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A Palestinian vendor sells falafel in a market during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)
A member of the Israeli security forces checks the identity cards and permits of Palestinians trying to go through a checkpoint in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank to reach Jerusalem, to take part in the first Ramadan Friday Noon prayer at al-Aqsa mosque compound on March 15, 2024. (Photo by HAZEM BADER/AFP)

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A member of the Israeli security forces checks the identity cards and permits of Palestinians trying to go through a checkpoint in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank to reach Jerusalem, to take part in the first Ramadan Friday Noon prayer at al-Aqsa mosque compound on March 15, 2024. (Photo by HAZEM BADER/AFP)

Palestinians walk past a stall of sweets in a market during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

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Palestinians walk past a stall of sweets in a market during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

Palestinians cook traditional food during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in the Old City of Jerusalem (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP)

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Palestinians cook traditional food during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in the Old City of Jerusalem (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP)

Palestinians walk through a market during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank on March 14, 2024. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR/AFP)

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Palestinians walk through a market during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank on March 14, 2024. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR/AFP)

A Palestinian vendor sells juice in a market during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

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A Palestinian vendor sells juice in a market during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

A Palestinian vendor sells toys in a market during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Balata refugee camp (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

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A Palestinian vendor sells toys in a market during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Balata refugee camp (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

Palestinians walk past a stall of sweets in a market during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Balata refugee camp (Photo by Zain JAAFAR/AFP)

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Palestinians walk past a stall of sweets in a market during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Balata refugee camp (Photo by Zain JAAFAR/AFP)

A woman hangs out laundered clothes to dry outside a tent inscribed with greeting messages for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, at a camp sheltering displaced Palestinians erected in a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

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A woman hangs out laundered clothes to dry outside a tent inscribed with greeting messages for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, at a camp sheltering displaced Palestinians erected in a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

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