Last Eid Al-Fitr ✨ - It was my first Eid outside of the UK. I spent it with my family in Yemen, and these are some of the pictures from the local Eid prayer in the area they live in. But like many places in Yemen right now, this area couldn't be any different. Having fallen victim to the intense conflict that has enveloped the country, the vast majority of the place my family call home, has been destroyed after attacks on civilian infrastructure by the Houthis, leaving the residents with no option but to flee. Leaving everything behind, from their broken shell of a home to their loved ones now 6ft deep. And the fair few who had no option but to stay, are left in dire conditions with no electricity, no gas and no water. What is left of once a buzzing hub, is nothing more than a ghost town. So when I look back at the pictures of my last Eid.. it makes me wonder.. Where are each of these people now? What are their stories? How many of them are even alive? And then I think about what must be left of it all.. Those minarets that once echoed the Takbeer from the crack of dawn, the praising of Allah bouncing from the tips of every mountain, that same playground that once had hundreds of foreheads placed in neat lines as they prostrated to their Lord, that place.. That place that once was a place called home.. What has it all become? #EidMubarak #PrayForYemen #PrayForTheUmmah #UncomfortableRealities
