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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — At a market in Gaza, Souad Abu Jarbou filled four large bags with prayer rugs and different gift items, including prayer beads, perfumes, incense, jalabiyas and ihram clothing. It cost her $1,500 to buy the various gifts for the guests expected to visit her family to congratulate her mother for making the hajj on Aug. 27.
“My mother decided that we should buy gift items from the local Gaza market, particularly since the various items are less expensive than those in the Saudi market,” Abu Jarbou told Al-Monitor. “I bought some beads, prayer rugs and prayer clothes for women and children, small oil perfumes and a number of miswak [twigs for cleaning teeth].”
