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.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listHe 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.“Today, as you can see, I work behind a small ‘charging point’ near my home, trying to secure the bare-minimum income to get by.”“I spent four university years in studios, working on art projects, exhibitions, and crafts. All of that has become memories, with no way back.”During the war, al-Awadi was displaced with his family to southern Gaza for a year and a half. There, he tried to hold onto some of his experience in fine arts and design, but he was too distracted.“I tried to go on YouTube and watch art exhibitions and artists’ work. I tried to refresh my knowledge, to draw and sketch,” he explained. “But everything …
