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  • Empty pockets promise grim Eid feast for Gazans [Here's a quarter]

    10/23/2006 5:45:22 AM PDT · by Alouette · 18 replies · 652+ views
    AFP ^ | Oct. 23, 2006 | Mehdi Lebouachera
    GAZA CITY (AFP) - In Gaza City's Firas market the stalls are laden with gift items and toys, fireworks and new clothes, cooking utensils and fish, as people crowd around, looking, touching and walking on. As the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan draws to an end and people look ahead to the Eid al-Fitr holiday that follows, there is little thought of feasting, except to look back fondly to Eids gone past. Amid the din of shopkeepers hawking their wares over loudspeakers, Abdulkarim says "people are coming, but they're not buying ... They don't have any money." "I only get...