Displaced Palestinian families faced a grim first day of Eid Al-Adha on Friday, with little to eat, no sacrificial meat, no new clothes, and none of the usual festive spirit that typically marks the holiday.

Tahrir Abu Jazar, a displaced 36-year-old woman from Rafah, cooked lentils and rice inside her tent in Muwasi for her five children, who sat on the bare ground with their uncovered feet in the dirt.

One child clapped with excitement, overjoyed at the prospect of having something to eat.

Abu Jazar can’t obtain flour to make bread and or bring food from the Israeli-operated aid distribution centers, fearing she or her family would be fatally shot like others over the past week.

“There are no Eid celebrations now as there is no new clothes or sacrificial meat, or monetary gifts, or joy,” she said, reminiscing over Eid days before the war when the children could have meat.

Now, all she says she wants is for warplanes to reduce their operations.

“My son went out and tried to celebrate Eid and was scared of the warplane so he came back. He just wanted to perform Eid prayers. He didn’t want food, clothes, or monetary gifts…my children were scared and didn’t attend Eid prayers because of the heavy airstrikes,” she said.

Plumes of black smoke rose near the displacement camp.

Outside the tents, some children—dressed in torn clothes—played in the sand and on a makeshift swing.

AP video by Mohammad Jahjouh

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