(8 Aug 2013)
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Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan
1. Wide of Zaatari camp
2. Various of hundreds of Syrian refugees performing Eid al-Fitr prayers
3. Various of preacher at podium
4. Wide of Syrian refugees
5. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Ibrahim Ismail, Syrian refugee from Damascus:
"We wish in this Eid that God liberates Syria, and to return safely to our country. We thank the Jordanian government for hosting us, but we feel very sad, we feel truly sad because we are not at home, we are displaced, some of us in Turkey, others in Jordan and Lebanon, and others live in Egypt, this is our situation."
6. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mohammad al-Hariri, Syrian refugee from Daraa:
"We feel very sad at this Eid, we all feel sad, not only me, we are displaced in this camp, we all want to go back home, and we are looking to defeat this dictator and to get rid of this criminal, who has killed our children and raped our women, and destroyed our mosques."
7. Various of Syrian children playing on swings
8. Various of children buying toys
Ketermaya, Mount Lebanon
7. Pan left of Ketermaya refugee camp
9. Wide of camp
10. Close of cooking pot
11. Mid of woman walking with her children
12. Mid of men praying
13. Mid of woman hanging out washing
14. Mid of men praying
15. Various of children playing
16. Mid of Farah brushing her sister's hair
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Farah (full name not given), refugee from Damascus area:
"We have no feast at all, in Syria we were celebrating the feast by visiting our relatives, here we have no one to visit. We are away from our villages in Syria, If we were in Syria we could feel it with more happiness but now there is no happiness at all."
18. Mid of men greeting each other
STORYLINE:
As millions of Muslims across the world celebrate the religious festival of Eid al-Fitr in their homes, Syrians who fled the violence in their embattled country are having to mark the occasion from behind the walls of refugee camps across the region.
At the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, solemn prayers were held among tents and far from mosques.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that more than 120-thousand Syrian refugees live in the Zaatari camp.
"We wish in this Eid that God liberates Syria, and to return safely to our country, we thank the Jordanian government for hosting us, but we feel very sad, we feel truly sad because we are not at home," said Ibrahim Ismail from Damascus who is now living in the Zaatari camp.
After prayers some of the children were able to buy toys, as part of the Eid tradition of giving and receiving presents, as well as feasting.
Elsewhere at the Ketermaya refugee camp in Mount Lebanon, many grieved being separated from their families on what would normally be a close family occasion
"We have no feast at all, in Syria we were celebrating the feast by visiting our relatives, here we have no one to visit," said Farah from the area around Damascus.
Lebanon officially hosts 546-thousand Syrians who have fled the conflict, most in the last five months.
Tens of thousands registered with the United Nations in just the last two weeks.
The Lebanese government estimates that there are over a (m) million and a half unregistered Syrian refugees in the country of 4 (m) million Lebanese.
Eid al-Fitr festivities follows the holy month of Ramadan when Muslims are supposed to abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex during daylight hours as a way to test their faith.
The holiday is also a time of reflection, forgiveness and charity.
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