Media coverage
Dispatches from Gaza (blog) · 2010-04-13
A post on the blog Dispatches from Gaza by journalist Ashley Bates, who met Shaban while reporting on new fees Hamas had imposed on workers salvaging rubble at the former Erez industrial zone. Shaban told her that Hamas faced a 'financial crisis' and was imposing new fees across the economy to support its 'bloated bureaucracy', recalled Erez as a once vibrant place where Israelis and Palestinians did business together, described Gaza's many youth initiatives as dynamic and stubborn and a real threat to Hamas, and said the Israeli and American refusal to negotiate with Hamas 'is only fueling the extremists'. The post also notes that he worked for the UN and international agencies before founding PalThink in 2007.
A post on the blog Dispatches from Gaza by journalist Ashley Bates, who met Shaban while reporting on new fees Hamas had imposed on workers salvaging rubble at the former Erez industrial zone. Shaban told her that Hamas faced a 'financial crisis' and was imposing new fees across the economy to supp…