Also, for those that don’t know, Palestinian banks deal entirely with and depend completely on Israeli banks; as a consequence, and as one of the many forms the blockade takes, Israeli banks have not let shekels into Gaza. Anyway, when all’s said and done, we won’t receive our salaries before Eid, so for many people Eid will be buried in its cradle before being born (like the saying in classical Arabic, ‘for many people Eid will hatch early’). … Eid = cash (meat + money for the Eid gifts)