The people of Gaza received Ramadan this year with the least of its inherited rituals, and its religious and secular traditions, but the enormity of murder and mass destruction imposed on them did not prevent them from fasting and praying and providing a grain that passes through, through which they begin their hungry breakfast.
The people of Gaza received Eid al-Fitr, which is accompanied everywhere in the world by the word "Al-Said", but it is not in Gaza, where the rubble of destroyed houses and tombs are not visited, and those of the children who survive, there are no new clothes for them in this Eid, and there is no smile on their faces, but sadness for what they have lost, fathers, mothers, brothers, neighbors, colleagues of nurseries and schools.
The people of Gaza are looking forward to the success of the Cairo negotiations, so that they have been disappointed by the world that presented them with Ramadan and Eid as the month of the end of the war, or at least the beginning of the end of the war, or at least the beginning of trusting them. Even for some time of the collective death, they are looking forward to the success of the Cairo negotiations, so that they enjoy weeks without death or less death, and some favorable calmness to complete the many shortcomings of their lives, so when death moves away, the doors of life open.
What was quoted from the people of Gaza from scenes on the day of Eid, embodies the strength of life and the strength of desire for it, the strength of humanism not to surrender in front of the downward death from the air, sea and land.
We pray to God that the efforts of our Egyptian and Qatari brothers will culminate in reaching an agreement that relieves the people of Gaza from death and destruction, and perhaps we need to believe what the Americans say about their desire and their quest to succeed in reaching a ceasefire, and if this happens and this is what we hope and hope, we can tell the people of Gaza:
“Despite the deep wounds... And the taste of bitter death and the smile on the lips every year and you are fine.”
The writer is Ambassador of Palestine to Bangladesh.