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Road accidents increasingly common in Gaza Strip

Two young women were killed and another injured in a car accident in the Gaza Strip, which sparked a wave of angry reactions among citizens toward reckless drivers and laxity in applying laws and punishing lawbreakers.
A volunteer member of Hamas directs traffic in a street in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Aug. 21, 2007.

Gazan sisters Samar and Sally Kreizm, and their friend Shahira Shuhaiber, had a car accident Aug. 18, which killed Samar and Shahira. Sally was seriously injured and is still in the hospital.

Samar had landed a job at Al-Nassr Pediatric Hospital in Gaza City a year before the fatal accident, and had shared her joy in a Facebook post. Finding a job in Gaza is no easy feat, but her joy, however, was short-lived.

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