More Gaza companies hire female security guards

More public and private institutions in the socially conservative Gaza Strip are being served by women security guards.
Carrefour Mall
Security guards Reem Sukkar (R) and Abdallah (L) of the Gaza security firm G-Unit monitor security cameras at the Carrefour Mall in the eastern Gaza Strip, Oct. 16, 2022. - Hadeel Al Gherbawi
Hadeel Al Gherbawi
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Reem Sukkar, who works at the Carrefour Mall in Gaza City, is one of the Gaza Strip's first women security guards. 

“My dream is to open a women-only security company in the Gaza Strip,” Sukkar told Al-Monitor.

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