Seventy days after they were forced to leave their house in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, Hanaa al-Masry, her husband and their six children were last weekend preparing for Ramadan in their new home: a dilapidated tent. Here, there will be no decorations, no joyous family meals and no reading of the Qur’an in the garden.
The Muslim holy month – a time for friends and family as well as religious contemplation, prayer and fasting – started on Monday and will be like none that anyone in Gaza can remember.
