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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

Mai Yaghi

A solar farm facility powering "The Sailor" seafood restaurant, which is also used to shelter and provide oxygen for fish pools underneath, next to an agricultural field in Gaza City, September 7, 2022. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP)
October 4, 2022, 12:30 pm
Electricity cuts, costly bills push Gazans to seek out solar power
Estimates say one-fifth of Strip’s residents have installed panels; restaurant owner says investment in renewable source slashed energy outlay, allowing him to refurbish business
By Rosie SCAMMELL and Mai Yaghi
A Palestinian worker prepares plastic for processing to extract fuel in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip on August 23, 2022. (Mohammed Abed / AFP)
August 26, 2022, 11:02 am
Desperate for fuel, Gazans burn plastic despite serious environmental, health risks
Dangerous distillation method turned to by some residents of Strip, amid diesel shortage and spike in global fuel prices
By Belal AL SABBAGH and Mai Yaghi
Ukrainian Viktoria Saidam (R), accompanied by her Palestinian husband Ibrahim Saidam, show their passports at their family home in the refugee camp of Bureij in the central Gaza Strip, March 22, 2022. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)
March 23, 2022, 2:59 pm
Ukrainian woman, Palestinian husband move to Gaza after fleeing Russian invasion
Escaping the war in Ukraine, Viktoria Saidam and her husband take shelter in Gaza, not a place typically associated with security; nonetheless, they say they ‘feel safe here’
By Belal AL SABBAGH and Mai Yaghi
Eight-year-old Maram slips on a 3D-printed mask developed by medical charity Doctors Without Bordersthat covers her face and treats her severe burns from a blaze at a Gaza bakery. (Screen capture/AFP)
March 6, 2021, 7:09 pm
Gaza girl dons 3D-printed mask to heal face burns caused by bakery blaze
Eight-year-old Maram wears transparent plastic covering developed by Doctors Without Borders, which puts pressure on face and advances healing process
By Mai Yaghi
Palestinians who are unable to pay off their debts, sit in a cell in a Hamas jail in Gaza City on February 20, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)
March 8, 2018, 7:38 am
Debt lands hundreds of Gazans in jail as economy tanks
Enclave’s residents suffering consequences of ongoing blockade and dispute between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority
By Mai Yaghi
Senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya is seen in the Egyptian capital Cairo on November 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mohamed El-Shahed)
November 23, 2017, 5:39 pm
Palestinian factions leave Cairo with little reconciliation progress
Many unresolved issues remain in Gaza ahead of scheduled December 1 handover, including Hamas weapons and Fatah’s punitive measures
By Mai Yaghi and Shatha YAISH
A Palestinian woman ironing clothes during the few hours of electricity supply that Gaza receives each day, at Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, July 31, 2017. (AFP/ SAID KHATIB)
August 30, 2017, 12:09 pm
Midnight rush for power in electricity-starved Gaza
Residents of Hamas-controlled enclave forced to cook, do laundry, recharge phones and computers with only 3-4 hours of power a day
By Mai Yaghi
A drug addict stands behind bars at a Hamas-run prison in Gaza City on May 10, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)
July 2, 2017, 7:59 am
Stigma hides simmering drug addiction issues in Gaza Strip
With high unemployment and little hope, many residents of coastal enclave increasingly turning to narcotics, painkillers
By Mai Yaghi
A Palestinian man works in a factory in Gaza City making kippot, or Jewish skullcaps, to be exported to Israel, on March 8, 2017. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)
March 10, 2017, 4:02 pm
The yarmulke-makers of Hamas-run Gaza
In a refugee camp in the Islamist-controlled Strip, a small textile factory produces Jewish skullcups for the neighbor-enemies next door
By Mai Yaghi
Mossab Abo Toha, who is collecting english books for his "Library and Bookshop for Gaza" project, at the library in his family home in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza on February 20, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)
February 26, 2017, 8:43 am
In Gaza, first English-language library opens window to world
Asserting that ‘freedom begins when one frees one’s mind,’ two Palestinian friends use Facebook to collect books from across the globe
By Mai Yaghi
Palestinian musicians of al-Takht al-Sharqi (The Arab Orchestra) band take part in a rehearsal at the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in Gaza City, on February 9, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/Mahmud Hams)
February 13, 2015, 5:40 am
Fame beckons for Gaza teen band forged in war
The Arab Orchestra, whose members lived through fighting between Hamas and Israel, advance in ‘Arabs Got Talent’
By Mai Yaghi
Illustrative photo of a Palestinian youth crawling under a barbed wire obstacle during a graduation ceremony for a training camp run by the Hamas movement on January 29, 2015 in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. (AFP photo/Said Khatib)
February 9, 2015, 8:28 am
In Gaza, disaffected youth see future as Hamas fighters
Some 17,000 child soldiers graduate course by terror group; some human rights activists defend camps, but decry use of teens
By Mai Yaghi
Palestinian artist Mohammed al-Zamar poses with an adorned used and diffused ammunition round on September 24, 2014, in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. (photo credit: AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)
October 2, 2014, 10:43 am
Remnants of war become art in Gaza
For residents, repurposed shells and ordinance become a way of moving on after this summer’s hostilities with Israel
By Mai Yaghi
Smoke and fire rise following an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
August 20, 2014, 5:43 am
‘Israel killed Hamas commander’s wife and daughter’
Organization claims Mohammed Deif’s family was hit, as Israel retaliates for major rocket barrage from Gaza
By Mai Yaghi
A Palestinian woman carries a bucket of water next to solar panels in Al-Thala. (photo credit: AP/Majdi Mohammed)
February 26, 2014, 8:06 am
As fuel runs short, Gazans see lifeline in solar power
With smuggling tunnels closed and daily electricity outages, impoverished Strip is increasingly looking to the sun
By Mai Yaghi
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