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Just before sunset on Thursday, Nisreen Nassar crouched over her makeshift oven, burning wood and scraps of plastic to bake bread for her family so they could break their fast.<\/p>\n
Four months after the United States-brokered \u201cceasefire\u201d came into effect<\/a> in October, and as US President Donald Trump convened the first meeting of his Board of Peace<\/a> on Thursday, she wasn\u2019t expecting to be sheltering with her family in an abandoned school and cooking on an open fire during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan<\/a>.<\/p>\n Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n \u201cOur preparations and expectations for Ramadan this month were that it would be better than previous ones during the war. Unfortunately, it is worse,\u201d Nassar told Al Jazeera\u2019s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City.<\/p>\n Nassar\u2019s family is one of many still living in schools and makeshift shelters throughout northern Gaza, relying on humanitarian aid for their basic needs and barely able to prepare a meal to break their fast, known as Iftar, due to gas shortages.<\/p>\n Nassar, her husband Thaer, and their seven children lived in Beit Hanoon, in the northeast, before Israel\u2019s genocidal war on Gaza began in October 2023, which has killed more than 72,000 people, according to Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Health statistics.<\/p>\n They have since been displaced several times, from Beit Hanoon to Rafah and Khan Younis in the south.<\/p>\n The Nassar family is still waiting for a decision that would allow them to return home \u2013 or to what remains of it. This marks the third Ramadan that they have been living in a school, which, apart from the concrete walls, offers little shelter.<\/p>\n The children sleep not in beds, but directly on a classroom floor. The Nassar family\u2019s only possessions comprise a few bags of clothes and some thin blankets.<\/p>\n Thaer said his children are afraid to go outside due to Israeli gunfire, in violation of the \u201cceasefire\u201d agreement.<\/p>\n \u201cMy children live in fear, whether they go out into the street or stay here in the shelter. In the past, in better days, they had better times, playing ball, going to school, and then returning home.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Health, more than 600 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since the \u201cceasefire\u201d came into effect.<\/p>\n While Palestinians have had little respite this Ramadan, Mahmoud said Palestinians remain steadfast.<\/p>\n \u201cFor many of the Palestinians sheltering inside this school, Iftar is a celebration of spiritual resilience, unbroken by Israel\u2019s genocide and a future that is far from certain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nisreen Nassar and her family, like many other Palestinians, continue to live in schools and makeshift shelters. Listen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50,2128,85,46,44,47,43,48,7319],"class_list":{"0":"post-301084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-gaza","9":"tag-humanitarian-crises","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-israel-palestine-conflict","13":"tag-middle-east","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-palestine","16":"tag-religion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}