Repairing torn banknotes or making fuel from plastic: The new trades for survival in a besieged Gaza

20 Puede 2025, 18:15
Abdel Rahman Asfour prepares homemade fuel in Khan Younis, Gaza.

On the outskirts of Khan Younis, beneath blackened adobe walls, 22-year-old Abdel Rahman Asfour balances long metal pipes, carrying heavy drums to his companions. Beneath these pipes, a primitive fire burns for 12 hours, slowly melting nearly a ton of crushed plastic into a sticky yellow substance. This viscous concoction is then piped into barrels, cooled using water pipes, and finally transformed, through trial and error, into precious drops of homemade fuel.

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General view of the homemade fuel production station in Khan Younis, Gaza, April 15.

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A detail of the repair process on a banknote in Khan Younis, April 15.

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