Dreams of survival: How war has restructured Gaza’s job market
Al Jazeera
Gaza’s professionals adapt careers to survive, shifting from arts and business to whatever they can find to make money.
Gaza City – On a street corner in Gaza City’s Remal market, Abdulrahman al-Awadi stands inside a small tarpaulin-made tent that he set up as a mobile phone charging station, a job that emerged during the war and has since become his livelihood.
Al-Awadi has hung his artwork above shelves that hold mobile phones and charging units.
He checks the sunlight and the efficiency of the solar panel mounted above.
The 25-year-old, who graduated from Al-Aqsa University’s fine arts faculty two years before Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began, never imagined he would end up standing on his street, watching phones being handed to him one after another to charge for one or two shekels.
“Before the war, I worked in fine arts and graphic design, and I was still taking my first steps in the world of exhibitions and advertising,” al-Awadi told Al Jazeera.
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