[2] She was married to Rami Khader Saad, who was shot and killed by Israeli forces in 2003; and then she later married to Wael Aqilan, who suffered a ruptured stomach in May 2009 and died after being prevented from leaving the Gaza Strip for medical treatment..[3][4] She worked as a mathematics teacher for three years, then resigned in 1999 to devote herself to technical work.
She has worked in other daily political newspapers and news websites, as well as chaired the cartoon company, Juha Ton.
[citation needed] Joha is the first cartoonist in Palestine and the Arab world to work for a daily political newspaper.
[5] On 11 January 2016, Facebook deleted her official page and all her cartoons on the grounds that it had received notifications of offensive drawings.
[6] The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) a New York-based international Jewish non-governmental organization and advocacy group has labeled Joha's work as "anti-semitic cartoons".