"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. Four months after the United States-brokered ceasefire came into effect in October, and as US President Donald Trump convened the first meeting of his Board of Peace on Thursday, she wasn't expecting to be sheltering with her family in an abandoned school and cooking on an open fire during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan."
"Nassar's 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. Nassar, her husband Thaer, and their seven children lived in Beit Hanoon, in the northeast, before Israel's genocidal war on Gaza began in October 2023, which has killed more than 72,000 people, according to Gaza's Ministry of Health statistics."
"The Nassar family is still waiting for a decision that would allow them to return home 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. The children sleep not in beds, but directly on a classroom floor. The Nassar family's only possessions comprise a few bags of clothes and some thin blankets."
Nisreen Nassar crouched over a makeshift oven, burning wood and scraps of plastic to bake bread for her family before sunset during Ramadan. Four months into the US-brokered ceasefire, she sheltered with her husband and seven children in an abandoned school, cooking on an open fire due to gas shortages. The family has been displaced multiple times from Beit Hanoon to Rafah and Khan Younis and awaits a decision about returning home or what remains of it. The children sleep on classroom floors with only a few bags of clothes and thin blankets. The family relies on humanitarian aid and fears Israeli gunfire despite the ceasefire.
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