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.

Gazans recount how they are dealing with death and destruction

The first day of Eid was canceled for Gazans as people try to cope with having lost family, homes and their livelihoods to the wave of attacks between Gaza and Israel.

Hana Salah | Palestine | May 14, 2021

NASA engineer from Gaza following escalation with concern

Loay Elbasyouni, who grew up in the Gaza Strip and attended UNRWA schools, helped design the first NASA helicopter that hovered over Mars in March 2021.

Hana Salah | Culture | May 14, 2021

A NASA security helicopter flies past the Vehicle Assembly Building on launch day at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, United States, May 26, 2020.

Hamas says some Arab dramas promote normalization with Israel

An Egyptian series starring Egyptian actor Mohamed Ramadan angered Hamas for portraying the Gaza Strip as a drug den in the 1940s; Hamas also is critical of Ramadan over issues involving Arab states' normalization of relations with Israel.

Hana Salah | Palestine | May 13, 2021

Mohamed Ramadan hugging Israeli singer Omer Adam

Jerusalem violence reignites tension between Gaza, Israel

Palestinian factions in Gaza resumed rocket attacks against Israel amid ongoing violence in Jerusalem.

Hana Salah | Palestine | May 12, 2021

Israel buries Palestinians in numbered graves

Three years after he was killed by Israel near the Gaza border, the body of a 16-year-old Palestinian was returned to his family, reviving controversy of Israel’s so-called cemeteries of numbers.

Hana Salah | Palestine | May 3, 2021

An elderly Palestinian walks through a cemetery in Hebron, with in the background an old market building along al-Shuhada Street that was designated by Israel to be a new settlement, with existing settler buildings behind, West Bank, Jan. 28, 2020.

Sparks from Jerusalem rain on Gaza's tinderbox

The situation on the Israel-Gaza border is escalating with a barrage of rockets and mortar shells from Gaza and Israeli strikes on Hamas military positions.

Hana Salah | Palestine | Apr 29, 2021

A Palestinian boy plays with a homemade sparkler as tires burn during a rally in support of demonstrators in Jerusalem on April 24, 2021, in Gaza City.

Gazans with COVID-19 symptoms refuse testing

Some people in the Gaza Strip are hiding their COVID-19 symptoms and avoiding testing in order to keep their jobs.

Hana Salah | Palestine | Apr 19, 2021

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

Hana Salah

Gazans recount how they are dealing with death and destruction

NASA engineer from Gaza following escalation with concern

Hamas says some Arab dramas promote normalization with Israel

Jerusalem violence reignites tension between Gaza, Israel

Israel buries Palestinians in numbered graves

Sparks from Jerusalem rain on Gaza's tinderbox

Gazans with COVID-19 symptoms refuse testing

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

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