Why I spend hours painstakingly repairing banknotes
In a bustling Gaza City market, a money repairer expertly inspects a worn, yellow 100 shekel ($30.50; £23.10) note. He straightens it out and enhances its faded colour with careful strokes of a pencil. Baraa Abu al-Aoun should have been studying at university - but instead he ekes out a living from a table he has set up at the roadside, taking a small sum to help keep cash in circulation. Fixing banknotes is a thriving new business in Gaza. Ever since the deadly Hamas-led attack on Israel in 2023 and the devastating war that ensued, Israel ...
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