It seems that the making of homemade bombs has become a child’s activity for Ramadan:

Children once swung pretty lanterns after sunset to celebrate Ramadan. Now, they set off explosions. The sounds, from homemade firecrackers, appear to be inspired by years of fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants, and more recently, armed clashes between Hamas and Fatah. The explosions are sending parents and health officials into a frenzy. On one recent day, 43 children were treated for burns, eye injuries, and some lost fingers, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. In a narrow dirt road in Gaza City, 16-year-old Fares Heles distributed firecrackers to admiring children, including to his 3-year-old brother. “Yesterday we blew up a big one,” Heles said, adding that he makes his own firecrackers — resembling small bombs — because store-bought ones were not loud enough. Ingredients include acid and soda cans. At one point, one of Heles’ gang left a firecracker at a residential doorstep, and fled behind a tree as it exploded, sending peals of laughter throughout the group. The scene was similar to the battles between rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah, when the groups planted bombs outside the homes of rivals. Next door, a toddler screamed, and an angry father shouted from a window to the children. Fadel Abu Heen, a Gaza mental health specialist, said that with each Ramadan, the toys children play with are louder. “The more tense the atmosphere gets around them, the more they look for noisier toys to express the brutality inside them,” Abu Heen said.