Hana Salah

Hana Salah is a Palestinian journalist who focuses on financial, business, agricultural and development issues. She has a master's degree in economic development from the Islamic University of Gaza. She has written for Palestinian newspapers, the LA Times, Al Jazeera, Turkey's Anadolu News Agency and developmental organizations.

Gold industry in Gaza booms amid coronavirus outbreak

The gold industry in Gaza has thrived amid the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in terms of increased production locally and enhanced quality and availability of a variety of gold products and jewelry.

Hana Salah | Palestine | Apr 13, 2021

A Palestinian vendor displays a necklace in a window case at a gold market in Gaza City's historic old quarter, Gaza Strip, March 30, 2016.

Gaza welcomes child conceived through smuggled sperm from Israeli prisons

A Palestinian family in the Gaza Strip has welcomed the birth of a child born through IVF after the sperm of his father who is detained in Israeli prisons was smuggled.

Hana Salah | Palestine | Feb 24, 2021

With one leg, this Gazan parkour star crosses besieged enclave

Official authorities in the Gaza Strip do not recognize parkour as an official sport, but it has become the only breathing space for many young people in the enclave.

Hana Salah | Palestine | Feb 10, 2021

Mohamed Aliwa, a Palestinian youth whose leg was amputated near the knee in 2018 after he was hit by Israeli army fire during protests along the fortified border separating the Gaza Strip from Israel, shows off his parkour skills despite his disability and while on crutches in Gaza City on January 4, 2021. - Parkour, an extreme sport also known as free-running, originated in France in the 1990s. Young people in the Gaza Strip have been practising parkour for years; bounding from ruin to ruin in an enclave p

Hamas calls for dismantling American field hospital for failing to provide needed services

Hamas refused to deal with the newly established American field hospital in the Gaza Strip and prohibited its citizens from visiting it, saying that the medical center is not providing services for difficult cases, such as cancer, as agreed upon in the truce understandings with Israel.

Hana Salah | Palestine | Jan 22, 2021

Palestinian protesters wounded during clashes with Israeli forces receive treatments from Red Crescent members in a field hospital during a demonstration along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of Gaza city on June 22, 2018. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP) (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

Christians in Gaza celebrate gloomy Christmas this year

Christians in the Gaza Strip will be celebrating Christmas at home this year in light of the lockdown and travel restrictions imposed to stem the skyrocketing number of coronavirus cases.

Hana Salah | Palestine | Dec 21, 2020

Palestinian Orthodox Christians attend a Christmas Mass at the Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City on January 7, 2020. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)

Gaza caught between full lockdown or collapse of health sector amid COVID-19 surge

A health catastrophe looms on the horizon of the Gaza Strip amid the already fragile health-care sector, while the government hesitates to impose a full lockdown due to the deteriorating economic situation.

Hana Salah | Palestine | Dec 3, 2020

A Palestinian man and his wife ride a donkey cart past street art showing doctors mask-clad due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on November 16, 2020. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)

Gaza farmers destroyed flowers amid lockdown

The state of emergency imposed on the Gaza Strip due to the coronavirus pandemic has not spared the flower cultivation sector.

Hana Salah | Palestine | Apr 24, 2020

Coronavirus brings more suffering to Gaza’s women

With the suspension of the Sharia courts’ work due to the confinement in the Gaza Strip, many Palestinian women have been struggling to get their rights to custody and alimony, while many have been separated from their children.

Hana Salah | Palestine | Apr 22, 2020

Palestinian workers in Israel face more restrictions amid coronavirus outbreak

The Palestinian government in the West Bank has escalated its precautionary measures on Palestinian workers returning from Israel in order to prevent further spread of the coronavirus.

Hana Salah | Palestine | Apr 2, 2020

HEBRON, March 22, 2020 -- Palestinian workers try to enter Israel through a checkpoint between the West Bank city of Hebron and Beersheva, March 22, 2020. The Israeli authorities announced late on Saturday that all crossings to and from Israel will be closed to limit the spread of COVID-19. A total of 53 Palestinians have been infected with the virus since March 5, and 17 of them have recovered, the health ministry in the West Bank said earlier Saturday. (Photo by Mamoun Wazwaz/Xinhua via Getty) (Xinhua/xio

Hamas, Houthis hope for deal with Saudi Arabia

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group is suggesting the release of Saudi captives in exchange for the release of Palestinians detained in Saudi jails, an unprecedented proposal that was widely welcomed by the Palestinian Hamas movement.

Hana Salah | Saudi Arabia | Mar 31, 2020

Hana Salah

Gold industry in Gaza booms amid coronavirus outbreak

Gaza welcomes child conceived through smuggled sperm from Israeli prisons

With one leg, this Gazan parkour star crosses besieged enclave

Hamas calls for dismantling American field hospital for failing to provide needed services

Christians in Gaza celebrate gloomy Christmas this year

Gaza caught between full lockdown or collapse of health sector amid COVID-19 surge

Gaza farmers destroyed flowers amid lockdown

Coronavirus brings more suffering to Gaza’s women

Palestinian workers in Israel face more restrictions amid coronavirus outbreak

Hamas, Houthis hope for deal with Saudi Arabia

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