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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 429

Sakher Abou El Oun

Government employees of the Palestinian Authority gather to return to work at the headquarters of the Palestinian Finance Ministry in Gaza City on November 29, 2017.(AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED
November 29, 2017, 6:09 pm
PA employees blocked from resuming work at Gaza ministries
As Hamas and Fatah struggle to make reconciliation work, disagreements break out over fate of government workers
By Sakher Abou El Oun
An elderly Palestinian man fills a water container at a public tap at the Khan Yunis Water Authority’s wastewater treatment plant. (CC-BY-4.0 Muhammad Sabah B’Tselem/Wikipedia)
March 23, 2017, 9:30 am
More Gazans sick from polluted drinking water, says utility chief
Salty groundwater, untreated wastewater thought to drive rise in kidney and other ailments; over 97% of water table ‘unfit for domestic use’
By Sakher Abou El Oun
This photograph released by the Gaza Strip Interior Ministry purports to show a gallows prepared for the execution of Hani Abu Aliyan, a 28-year-old convicted of killing two people, in the Gaza Strip, Wednesday, October 2, 2013. (AP/Gaza Interior Ministry)
December 13, 2016, 10:25 am
Silence, concern surround Gaza woman’s death sentence
Convicted of killing her husband, Nahla A. faces the first execution of a Palestinian woman in more than 20 years
By Sakher Abou El Oun
Palestinian electricity company workers drag a power line, many of which were destroyed following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 6, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/SAID KHATIB)
July 7, 2016, 5:01 pm
Electricity-starved Gazans look to sun for help
Tired of frequent power cuts, more Palestinians in the coastal enclave are turning to solar panels to power their homes
By Sakher Abou El Oun
Palestinian children play on a sand dune at the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 11, 2016. (AFP/MOHAMMED ABED)
May 26, 2016, 9:16 am
In Gaza, a wall of silence over child sexual assault
Though the crime could carry the death penalty, abuse is more often than not hushed up in the religiously conservative, Hamas-controlled enclave
By Sakher Abou El Oun
A Palestinian boy cleans debris near a training base of the Ezzedine al-Qassam brigades, the military wing of Hamas, in Gaza City, after Israeli warplanes struck multiple targets on June 4, 2015, in response to Palestinian rocket fire. (AFP/MOHAMMED ABED)
September 30, 2015, 12:00 pm
Suicide rate seen on rise as Gazans grow desperate
Homelessness and Hamas harassment are causing an increase in suicide attempts in the Palestinian enclave
By Sakher Abou El Oun
Palestinians flee their homes to take shelter at the United Nations school in Gaza City, Sunday, July 13, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)
July 17, 2014, 3:49 am
Israel, Hamas accept temporary ceasefire
5-hour truce set to start at 10 a.m. Thursday, as both sides trade fire hours before timeout
By Sara Hussein and Sakher Abou El Oun
Members of Hamas's Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
June 3, 2014, 7:53 pm
Palestinian analysts: Hamas ceded power to save face
Weakened and isolated, the group needs time to recuperate and rebuild, commentators say
By Sakher Abou El Oun
Private guards from Gaza's first private security company 'Secure Land' stand in front of a door during a visit of Palestinian singer and Arab Idol winner Mohammed Assaf at Palestine University in Gaza City, on February 10, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Mahmud Hams)
February 16, 2014, 11:16 am
Skirting armed factions, first private security firm opens in Gaza
Secure Land, whose members don’t belong to any Gazan group, operates by special arrangement with Hamas
By Sakher Abou El Oun
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