Young Palestinians in Gaza cannot find work and cannot leave

started university a professor made a promise to his class: finish your studies and you’ll find a job. He finished in 2019 with a business degree. Three years later, on a sweltering July afternoon, he is standing on Gaza City’s main commercial strip. Next to him is a crate stacked with phone chargers and other gadgets, which he hawks to passers-by for ten or 12 hours a day, taking home 20 shekels ($6) for the effort. “I found a job,” he quips, pointing ruefully at the crate.If he had grown up somewhere else, he says, he would look for work abroad. But he grew up in Gaza, which has been under Israeli and Egyptian blockade since 2007. Mr Masri has never left the tiny coastal enclave. Well-paying jobs in the Gulf might as well be on Mars. “The future? I’ve forgotten this word,” he says.