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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jason Burke, and Seham Tantesh in Gaza

‘Life requires cash’: Gaza’s jobs crisis leaves people struggling to afford basics

Crowds of people walk along a street where people have set up makeshift market stalls
People buy and sell items at market stalls in the Nuseirat refugee camp, near Deir al-Balah. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Every morning, Mansour Mohammad Bakr sets out from the small rented room in Gaza City he shares with his pregnant wife and two very young daughters. The 23-year-old walks past the port and the breaking waves of the Mediterranean where he once earned his living.

Before the two-year war that devastated Gaza, Bakr was a fisher, sharing tackle and a boat with his father and brothers. Now his brothers are dead, his father is too old, and his equipment was destroyed during the conflict. Like hundreds of thousands of others across Gaza, Bakr needs a job.

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