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A significant increase in livestock prices in the besieged Gaza Strip has forced many residents unable to purchase sheep to sacrifice as Eid al-Adha quickly approaches. “Unfortunately, I won’t be able to buy a sheep to celebrate Eid al-Adha (…) the prices are very high while we don’t have the money to buy it,” Ibrahim al-Nabahin, from the city of Deir Al-Balah in the centre of the strip, said to The New Arab. This is the second year in a row he is unable to buy livestock to sacrifice in celebration of Eid. “If high prices and the difficult economic situation continues like this, I think the …