DAMASCUS -- As hopes for a cease-fire in Syria during the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha have faded away due to the incessant violence and fighting between the government troops and armed rebels, Syrians choose to stay indoors during the holiday.

"I knew it won't work out! The situation is not that easy and it's not a press of a button to stop everything at once," Hani, a 23-year-old medicine school student, said when referring to the interrupted Eid cease-fire.

"With the too many agendas and fighting groups in our country, such a truce would only work out in our sweet dreams," he scoffed.

Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice, was supposed to be calm after the conflicting parties on the ground agreed to observe a truce during the four-day holiday as proposed by UN-Arab League special representative Lakhdar Brahimi, who have taken pains in touring regional and influential countries for the cease-fire to take hold. He said if the truce worked out, he could build on the would-be success for further pacification.

While Syrians were glued to their seats flipping between TV channels on Friday, the first day of the holiday, to see if there was any violation to the hoped-for truce, anti-government protests erupted in several areas in the country, followed by attacks on military bases in the northern province of Idlib and elsewhere, triggering off battles once again.

A while later, the Syrian army accused in a statement the armed rebels of breaching the truce and recounted in details all of the violations that had been allegedly carried out by the rebels in several areas. The armed rebels, on the other side, accused the government troops of not honoring the cease-fire.

The clashes and accusations were capped with three blasts that rocked the capital Damascus, northern Aleppo and eastern Deir al- Zour provinces over the past 24 hours and left many people killed.

Regardless of who violated the truce first, the violence and clashes continued and pushed the limited hopes for a cease-fire towards death.

Asked whether she will go out with her children during the Muslim holy holiday, 37-year-old Sausan said, "Hell, no... I will not go out. I am not willing to sacrifice my wellbeing and the safety of my children for going out... Who knows what could happen at any minute."

"You saw what happened yesterday and today as well... Some people just don't want peace. They want to keep fighting... I just can't figure out the way they think," she told Xinhua Saturday.

The Syrians' reluctance to celebrate the feast out of their homes is understandable, as violent clashes continued Saturday, the second day of the Eid, with reports of Syrian fighter jets raiding hotspots near the capital and elsewhere in the unrest-torn country.

Activists said 39 people have so far been killed on Saturday and reported intense clashes in Azaz area in Aleppo province between the rebels and the government troops.

On the other hand, the state TV said armed groups targeted five water pumps in Aleppo city, causing water outage in some parts of the city. The pro-government Sham FM radio said armed men stopped a bus in Andan area in Aleppo and set it on fire, killing 14 civilian passengers.

The incessant violence has sent people on edge.

"We used to live in tranquility and peace... What in the hell happened to this country?... I feel like there is some satanic power unleashed in this land that is eating it from the inside," Hamza, a 25-year-old Syrian, said while puffing his mini cigar in a cafe in central Damascus.

"What do those people want? We've had enough already. I really feel like I can't help it anymore... This nightmare should stop and people should start to learn how to love and accept each other. I just can't accept or believe in war and hatred," he said with grief.

"What is Eid? Aren't we supposed to spread peace among the people during this feast? I think that there is too much hatred and hurt of feeling going on and those extremists are flowing to our country to cast fire to the oil! I don't know which heaven would accept people with blood on their hands," the young man said.

Aside from being unable to go for a picnic and enjoy the balmy fall afternoon outdoors, the deteriorating crisis with no foreseeable solution is much more torturing for Syrians.

"It's a black humor: my 12-year-old daughter is now unafraid of the sound of bombing or gunfire," Samar, a 40-year-old mother of two told Xinhua.

"My daughter was sitting in the back seat of our car the other day, busy checking her Facebook on her smartphone, when I heard nearby gunshots... I turned back to her and told her to lower her head, but she didn't even blink or dignify me with a look! Instead, she kept using her cellphone and told me carelessly, 'If it happened again I will lower my head. Don't worry!'" Samar said.

The mother said her two kids even compete to distinguish between the sounds of shelling. "'It's a mortar!' 'No. It's an RPG. ' This is how they spend some evenings when there are shelling sounds reverberating from a distance," she said.

"I got them new clothes for the Eid, but I am not really planning to take them out, not yet... There are a couple of days left of the holiday... We will see. If the situation gets better, I will take them for a picnic," she said.