Gaza Christians Helping Muslims during Iftar on Roads
"When you see christians distributing water 2 muslims who can't make it for Iftar, #ProudToBeAPalestinian #Palestine," Mohammed Matter, Palestinian journalist and writer, who tweets @AbuYazan_Gaza, wrote, The News Teller reported on Saturday, June 20.
Matter posted photos showing Christian youth giving water to Muslims stuck in traffic during Iftar.
Pictures of youth were not the only photos to pop up from the war-torn district.
For the first and second days of Ramadan, Matter account also had two tweets, where the journalist wanted the rest of the world to see that though Israel had bombed Gaza a year ago, the effects of the bombing and shelling were still very much there.
Gaza has been blockaded by Israel since 2006.
Livelihood in the Gaza Strip, home to more than 1.8 million, has badly deteriorated since Israel imposed a crippling siege on the enclave in 2006.
The siege leaves most of Gazans cut off from the outside world and struggling with desperate poverty.
A UN report in May 2013 said that poverty stood at 40 percent among Gaza population, of whom 80 percent depended on outside aid.
The report said nearly 30 percent of Gazans were jobless and that eight out of 10 households are dependent on some kind of aid.
