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Published 15 Jan, 2024 06:31pm

Gaza tailor uses pedal power for sewing machine as fighting grinds on

When Palestinian tailor Majed Abu Hajeb mends the shirts or jackets of people who fled their Gaza homes with barely a change of clothes, he has to deploy pedal power because there is no electricity to run his old sewing machine.

Sitting by the roadside in a street market in Rafah, Abu Hajeb busily measures, cuts and sews as his son Magdy stands opposite, spinning the pedals of a dismantled child’s bicycle with his hands to power the machine.

More than three months of Israel’s bombardment on Hamas in Gaza has changed every element of life in the tiny, crowded Palestinian enclave, forcing nearly all of its 2.3 million people from their homes and smashing homes and shops in relentless bombardments.

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