When she approached the clock at seven in the morning, and after preparing breakfast for her family, Jihad Abu-Hassan (50 years) called on her child Karim to accompany her in her daily work, while her eldest son Mohammed recommended that he stay next to his sick father for his care.
After nine years, Kareem, with a special hammer, left his house in Nahr al-Bared, a random area in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis, to pick up a donkey cart, Which is the source of the family's search for a living.
Over the course of 12 consecutive hours, Umm Muhammad toured various areas of the Gaza Strip, searching for the scattered rubble piles of destroyed houses. Once they arrived, she and her child began to collect them after converting them into small cubes for easy transportation.
After she has filled her wagon with stones, with the help of her child, she goes to the building materials factories to sell what she has collected. After a hard work trip on a few shekels, she provides for her children's needs and provides treatment for her chronically ill husband, unable to support his family.
Al-Emarat Al-Youm accompanied Umm Mohammed on her journey and struggle to provide a living. She faces great hardship during her daily work hours. Her physical build-up and her child do not bear such a profession, but this is far worse than the bitterness of their harsh living conditions. Their expressions.
"The living conditions of my family are very difficult. My husband is in poor health, he can not work because of his sight loss, and he suffers from chronic illness. We have no source of income to help us," she says. Continue life ». "I did not want to ask for my family's need for anyone, I do not accept to deprive my children of food, and my husband from the treatment, so I had to look for a source of income to secure the requirements of my family, to feel a decent life like others." "I get out of my house every day from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm, where I gather all the areas to collect stones from the rubble of destroyed houses or between the houses after their owners have destroyed them. The owner of the factory buys me a truckload of eight shekels. " She notes that she can collect stones and move them through the cart three or four times for 12 hours continuously, indicating that she receives at the end of the day a material return of between 25 and 30 shekels. After finishing her hard work, she returns to her home, buys what her child needs and provides her husband with treatment to put her head on her pillow, reassuring, after God has provided her with the claw of her family. "When I return home at the end of the day and see my child happy with what I have given them, I feel boundless because I have been able to bring happiness to my child's heart," she says. My husband's subsidy, so he is tired and tired to earn a living, is better than begging and asking for help. " The family of Umm Mohammed Abu-Hassan lives in a modest house, covered with tin sheets, and lacks the necessities of living in furniture and living necessities. The area in which they live is marginalized by the government and lacks infrastructure, water and sanitation.