What’s your cash price? A collection from the entrance strains of the price of residing disaster, the place individuals who have been hit exhausting share their month-to-month bills.
Name: Mo Sarwa
Age: 50
Occupation: Owner of Sarwa Street Kitchen in East Jerusalem
Lives with: His spouse, Ilona, and their three youngsters – one son, Ruslan, 20, and two younger daughters, Anastasia, 10, and Ulana, 5. The latest addition to their household is Yokie, a brown-and-white rabbit from the pet retailer throughout the road.
Lives in: One of seven residences in a constructing that has been in Mo’s household since 1954 in Ras al-Amud, a Palestinian neighbourhood in East Jerusalem. Mo himself was born and raised there alongside his six brothers and two sisters. In the 90-square-metre (almost 1,000-square-feet), two-bedroom, three tub residence, Mo, Ilona and the women share the bigger bed room, whereas Ruslan has the smaller one to himself.
Monthly family earnings: Before the conflict, Mo earned 10,000 Israeli shekels ($2,697) every month. This compares with the common month-to-month gross wage in Israel of 12,009 shekels ($3,238) as of May 2023. This month, Mo made 500 shekels ($137). He is at present counting on his financial savings to assist his household as their sole supply of earnings, which he solely expects to final for one more six months.
Total bills for the month: 23,173 shekels ($6,286.70).
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2024/2/17/always-sad-a-jerusalem-restaurateur-could-lose-everything-amid-gaza-war?traffic_source=rss
