everybody’s working for the weekend

But in Gaza, “weekend” means different things to Hamas and Fatah, which in turn means, naturally, that gunfire erupted over the dispute:

GAZA, July 5 (Reuters) - Palestinian civil servants said they came under gunfire from a Hamas-led force as they tried to report for work on Thursday, which Hamas has decreed a day off. …

Guidelines for the working week by President Mahmoud Abbas’s emergency government set Sunday to Thursday as working days with a Friday/Saturday weekend.

But the Hamas-led government, which Abbas dismissed after the Islamist movement seized Gaza in a civil war three weeks ago, has set a Saturday-Wednesday working week.

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