Doha, Qatar – Haya al-Barai is getting ready for an additional quiet Ramadan in Qatar. She is going to mark the Muslim holy month along with her grandmother removed from dwelling.
Israel’s warfare on Gaza has torn her household aside.
The 16-year-old arrived in Qatar’s capital in December 2023 after her mother and father had been killed in Israeli air assaults. Al-Barai was wounded within the assaults and is now a paraplegic.
Considered one of her sisters, who was additionally wounded, is in Türkiye. Her different two sisters and a brother stay in Gaza.
“I don’t wish to have a good time Ramadan right here. I used to take pleasure in Ramadan with my household. We might eat and play video games collectively. My household was collectively at the moment,” Haya stated.
Israel’s warfare on Gaza since October 2023 has left greater than 38,000 Palestinians orphaned.
About 1,400 Palestinians have been evacuated to Doha with almost 500 of them wounded.
Most of them are actually residing in a compound in Thumama, on the southern outskirts of Qatar’s capital.
For Muslims all over the world, Ramadan is a time of fasting, prayer and reflection, and in addition a time to share with family members.
For a lot of Palestinian evacuees in Doha, this Ramadan marks one other 12 months of separation from their household in Gaza.
Hamsa al-Raqp, 12, misplaced her left eye and broke her proper arm in an Israeli air assault. She remembers the happiness of taking part in video games along with her cousins throughout Ramadan in Gaza.
Her father, Maher, stated the household has not celebrated Ramadan because the warfare in Gaza started.
“Final 12 months, because the killing continued, we didn’t do something for Ramadan. I watched tv all day and frightened about my household nonetheless in Gaza. I test on them day-after-day simply to verify they’re alive,” Maher stated. “This 12 months’s Ramadan makes no distinction to me, as my spouse and my three youngsters stay in Gaza.”
