The Gaza Strip’s economy is in “free fall” after more than a decade of Israeli siege, The World Bank stated in September.
More than half of Gaza’s two million people live under the poverty line, which the United Nations defines as subsisting on less than about $5 per day, including any aid.
This video shows one such family of seven living in a small metal house in Khan Younis.
“I don’t have a kitchen or anything and I don’t have a decent bathroom,” Samar al-Atrash, the mother of five, told The Electronic Intifada. “We don’t have anything.”
Al-Atrash’s husband, Ismail, has no regular income and cannot provide for the family.
“I bring home two to six dollars to spend on my children,” he said.
“I wish my children could live in a clean house. That’s my life’s wish.”
Video by Ruwaida Amer and Sanad Ltefa.
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