Gaza, Palestine. 2 June 2020. 24-years-old Fatima Al-Zatma sells her homemade ice-cream to children in her neighbourhood in the town of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Making ice-cream for sale is Fatima’s small project to support herself and her family in Gaza, where poverty and employment rates are extremely high and have been worsened by the recent measures to contain the Coronavirus. During the last 13 years Palestinians have been living under an Israeli blockade, which has severely restrained the movement of people and goods and has suffocated the economic sector of the already impover

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Gaza, Palestine. 2 June 2020. 24-years-old Fatima Al-Zatma sells her homemade ice-cream to children in her neighbourhood in the town of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Making ice-cream for sale is Fatima’s small project to support herself and her family in Gaza, where poverty and employment rates are extremely high and have been worsened by the recent measures to contain the Coronavirus. During the last 13 years Palestinians have been living under an Israeli blockade, which has severely restrained the movement of people and goods and has suffocated the economic sector of the already impoverished Palestinian enclave

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