War and rain mark end of Ramadan in Gaza
Gazans did their best to celebrate the end of Ramadan in the driving rain, as the war raged on with 14 killed, including children, in a strike on their home.
Israel struck several targets on first day of Eid al-Adha
The Israeli military said it struck several targets on the first day of the Eid al-Adha holiday, with a jet hitting a rocket launch site.
Biggest humanitarian aid so far
Little to celebrate or eat
Deprived from praying inside mosques
Eid at graves of loved ones
Families went to pray at the graves of loved ones killed in the war before going to the Ibn Taymiyyah mosque for Eid prayers.
Eid prayers in Jerusalem
In Jerusalem, tens of thousands of worshippers poured into the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, for morning prayers. "It's the saddest Eid ever," said nurse Rawan Abd, 32, from Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. "At the mosque you could see the sadness on people's faces."
Sombre atmosphere in West Bank
In the occupied West Bank, the atmosphere was even more sombre, with many Palestinians in the flashpoint northern city of Jenin visiting its cemetery to pray for those who have been killed since the Gaza war began.
Gazans live on memories of past Eid festivals
More than one million people are crammed into Rafah, on Gazas southern border with Egypt, having fled bombardments of their homes further north. It is the last relatively safe place in Gaza. But Israel has repeatedly flagged plans to assault Rafah to destroy remaining battalions of Hamas
Gaza says war death toll at 33,482
The conflict erupted with an unprecedented cross-border attack by Hamas on October 7 that resulted in the death of 1,170 people in Israel, whose retaliatory offensive has killed at least 33,482 people in Gaza, mostly women and children.
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