Nuseirat, Gaza Strip – Rawan al-Jabali is sitting, staring at her laptop screen, silently following a link to a job advertisement posted online. The internet is weak in the camp for displaced people she has come to work at in central Gaza, so she’s forced to refresh the page.Opportunities are rare for graduates like her in Gaza. She finished a degree in English language and literature, with a focus on translation, two years ago at the Islamic University of Gaza. But since then, it has been two years of fruitless job searching, all while she lives through Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinian enclave, forcing her to move with her family from northern Gaza to Nuseirat.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“I studied translation because I believed I would have opportunities in this field, but after the war most of the institutions where I could work disappeared,” al-Jabali told Al Jazeera.Rawan is one of the 80 percent of Palestinians in Gaza without a job, according to data from the Government Media Office. Joblessness, driven by the war and a pre-existing poor economic climate in Gaza, has contributed to a poverty rate in Gaza that now exceeds 93 percent.It is why – despite the exhaustion brought on by the electricity cuts, weak internet and difficulty moving around – al-Jabali is persevering. She has to find some way to provide for herself and her family.Mohammed al-Khudari is in a similar boat. He’s also a graduate of the I …
