The worldwide celebration of Eid al-Fita
All Muslims celebrate or enjoy the precious moment of Eid al-Fita on Wednesday, which comes at the end of the holy month of Ramadan. But the happiness of Gaza’s people has been eclipsed because of the growing crisis and, after the war of six months, Israel’s expected military offensive in Rafah city.
“We should not forget our brother and sister in Palestine; they are struggling with unjustified aggression and violence a lot, and the world is watching in silence.” Imam Abdulrahman Musa, one from Kenya’s capital Nairobi, said that. Turkish President “Tayyip Erdogan” sent support to Gaza in a holiday message, which he called a “bleeding wound on the conscience of humanity.”
In the Mosque of Aya Sofya, some people carried Palestinian flags and chanted slogans in support of residents of Gaza, and the United Nations warned that millions of people are under threat of imminent famine and that little aid is allowed in. The Palestinians in the refuge camp of Jabaliya near Gaza mourned loved ones among the over 33,000 killed in Israel’s offensive in response to Hamas’s deadly Oct. 7 attack in Israel.
Om Nidal Abu Omeira showed their hidden pain while he was crying alone over the graves of her mother, son-in-law, and grandson, who were killed in Israel’s offensive. The children keep saying, Where is my father? ‘I miss my father. “Om Nidal Omeira tells them that he is in heaven,” and they all start after a few minutes.
People are thankful for the different things they had after a month of fasting and reflection. Markets are empty before the holiday. Residents poured out of cities to return to villages to celebrate with loved ones. In Indonesia, which has the highest population of Muslims, three-fourths of the of the population travels for homecoming, which is locally called “mudik.”
Civil servant Ridho Alfian said, “This is the right moment to reconnect with family and recharge themselves.”
The largest mosque in South Asia Jakarta’s Istiqlal Grand was flooded with people, and promoters said to pray for the Muslim people in Gaza.
Jimly Asshiddiqie, who chairs the advisory board of the Indonesian Mosque Council, said, “This time Muslims and non-Muslims show humanitarian solidarity because the conflict in Gaza is not a religious war but a humanitarian problem.
Benin, Ghana, Syria, Afghanistan, and Turkey worshipers reflected the world in Berlin. Our country’s President Vladimir Putin said, “Terrorism has neither a nationality nor a religion. The chairman of the council of muftis in Russia said, “We call for unity against those dark forces.”