A Palestinian businessman has opened a clothing factory to aid the enclave’s economy after nine months of Israeli bombardment, Reuters reports.
“I opened this factory for the displaced, so they can work and so I can create work for [them],” said Omar Samer Shaat, whose previous factory in Rafah was destroyed by an Israeli bombardment.
Salvaging machinery, fabric, thread and other materials from the rubble of the factory, he used them to start a new workshop in nearby Khan Younis and offered jobs to tailors who had been displaced by the fighting.
With Israel imposing a tight siege on Gaza at the start of the conflict and only allowing in some humanitarian supplies, ordinary goods such as clothes are in short supply.
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