how the inhabitants try to get out of misery

How to live today in Gaza, one of the poorest and most densely populated territories in the world? Of the 2.3 million Palestinians, two-thirds live below the poverty line. This is the case of a young couple and their four children. To get by, they collect boxes in the street. They begin at home a work of cutting and creation with the aim of making toys that they will resell on the markets of Gaza at ridiculous prices but essential to their survival. “It was my husband who had the idea to make these toys, because the children kept asking for them and we couldn’t buy them”confides the mother of the family

An unemployment rate of 45%

Since 2007, Gaza has lived under an Israeli blockade. All people and goods entering or leaving Gaza are checked, including by sea. The border with Egypt is rarely open. These restrictions hamper the development of the local economy. The unemployment rate reaches 45% in Gaza. After four years in Turkey, a woman returned home to develop her small street business. She sells hamburgers, facing the sea, on the Gaza Corniche. She had to learn a trade after studying accounting, which is useless here. “I worked in fast food in Istanbul (Türkiye)“, she says. Even in times of war, good initiatives are not lacking in Gaza.