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"It's not easy to live in one of the world's most impoverished areas ," Magdolin al-Saway toldÌý°®Âþµº,Ìýher voice breaking mid-sentence.Ìý

Magdolin, 38, thought she had planned her life out when she graduated from college in 2007 and married an engineer. Little did she know .Ìý

"For more than 15 years, neither I nor my husband has had employment –Ìýgovernmental or private. Meanwhile, our family got bigger. I now have six children, with another on the way," Magdolin said with exacerbation.Ìý

"Because of the impact of the Israeli blockade and internal Palestinian division, ourÌýgeneration is in seemingly perpetual stagnation"

To subsist, Magdolin and her family depend on international institutions' financial and food aids, mainly the .

Ahmed al-Sawy, Magdolin's husband, also chimed into the interview held with °®ÂþµºÌýabout the lack of stability and the need to provide his family with basic needs, something that he fails on a regular basis.Ìý

"I planned to work in my area of expertise. I had initially planned to have onlyÌýthree kids, andÌýlive stableÌýjust like other engineers around the world, ."

In 2007, , which is home to more than two million people, after the Islamic Hamas movement forcibly seized the area and ousted its previous rulers, Fatah.Ìý

Israel, , then launched four large-scale military operations in the Gaza Strip between 2008 and 2021 to curb the perceived threat emanating from the enclave.Ìý

During this time, living conditions have expectedly worsened, with more and more people unable to meet their daily needs.Ìý

"Because of the impact of the Israeli blockade, ourÌýgeneration is in seemingly perpetual stagnation," Magdolin's husband said with evident despair.Ìý

"I have only gained a big family, while I can provide nothing for them and have nothing to build their future," he added.Ìý

The Gazan couple is among hundreds of thousands of prominent Palestinian families because of the ongoing Israeli blockade, according to Amjad al-Shawa, director of the Palestinian Non-Governmental Network in Gaza.

He told °®Âþµº that the coastal enclave is enduring itsÌý"worst humanitarian crisis" because of the culminationÌýof various political, economic, and social crises. However, he says, the Gaza Strip has been worsened by population increases which place acute stress upon any semblance of infrastructure.Ìý

"The strip is like entering a stage of "clinical death" without any form reconstruction, work, life, or development"

"At the end of 2021, Gaza's population reached 2,313,747 people," according to the Hamas-run General Administration of Civil Status at the Ministry of Interior. According to the statistics, the number of males has reached 1,173,814, while females were numbered at 1,139,933,Ìý 50.8 percent and 49.2 percent, respectively.Ìý

"If the population continues to grow, the situation will deteriorate ," al-Shawa said.

In 2012, the United Nations warned of the sharp deterioration in the Gaza Strip due to the 15-year long Israeli blockade imposed.ÌýThe agency also warned that the enclave might not be liveable in the near future.Ìý

In 2021, the unemployment rate in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip exceeded 50 percent, with more than 250,000 Palestinians unemployed, according to Maher al-Taba'a, director of the Chamber of Commerce in Gaza.Ìý

He told °®Âþµº that the unemployment rate hasÌýsoared to 78 percent among graduates aged between 20 to 29, defined as those who have a certificate with an intermediate diploma or those with a bachelor's degree.

Meanwhile, Maher explainedÌýthat the Gaza Strip's poverty rate has grown to 64 percent. In comparison, the rate of food instability among the Gaza Strip households reached 69 percent .Ìý

Unfortunately, without any form of reconstruction, work, life, or development. TheÌýnoose is narrowing around the neck of the territory, which threatens to explode the situation.

Al-Taba'a has also explained that many negative phenomena haveÌýemerged as a result, such as increased levels of beggingÌýin public places, increase in divorces, the financial failure of merchants and businessmen, bankruptcy and imprisonment for financial receivables."

Nevertheless, Gazans , calling on the international to pressure Israel to lift its siege and introduce comprehensive facilities-based mainly on economic development to ensure a significant improvement in the population's lives.

The Palestinian couple expressed their hope that Egypt would succeed someday in reaching a long-time ceasefire between the Palestinian factions and Israel to allow the local residents to rebuild their life once again.

Sally Ibrahim is °®Âþµº's correspondent from Gaza