How can I sit down for a Ramadan feast while my loved ones in Gaza find no respite from their imposed starvation? | Ramia Abdo-Sultan

Most Muslims outside of Gaza tell me their observances this year will be a time of mourning and grief

As Ramadan approaches, with its solemnity of spiritual abstention and fasting, and the anticipation of nightly feasting, I feel a stone in the pit of my belly.

Or perhaps it's a boulder that is weighing me down with this dull, leaden dread, this unshakeable guilt and this feeling of deep inadequacy and shame.