The Israeli occupation has imposed movement restrictions on the Gaza Strip as early as the 1990’s and those have intensified with the Israeli air, land and sea blockade since June 2007.

Today, there are some two million Palestinians living in Gaza, mostly refugees and youth. They remain ‘locked in’ and are denied basic rights of free movement and access to resources and job opportunities outside the Strip.

The Gaza Strip continues to suffer the consequences of the full isolation from the world. By the end of 2020, youth unemployment (among people under the age of 30) in the Gaza Strip stood at 65.5%.

Our ‘Freelancers in Gaza’ is a step forward to provide those youth in the Strip with freelance work opportunities. We provide services in translation (Arabic into English and vice versa), editing English and Arabic texts, conducting academic and journalistic interviews in Gaza, writing academic, journalistic, and policy reviews, teaching Arabic, and more.

We are grateful for the many mentors and volunteers who will be with us to provide the first cohort of freelancers with training and day-to-day support as we kick off this project. Their support means the Palestinian freelancers will receive your full payment and there will be no deducted cost on their work. You will be able to pay the freelancers through PayPal, bank account or western union - whatever is better to you both.