Gaza fisherman uses old fridge doors to catch fish

Israel's war on Gaza destroyed most of the boats in the harbour, wrecking the fishermen's means of making a living. 

But fisherman Khaled Habib came up with the idea of using an old refrigerator door as a makeshift paddle to propel himself through the waters of Gaza City's fishing port to continue feeding his family.

"We're in a very difficult situation today, and struggling with the fishing. There are no fishing boats left. They've all been destroyed and tossed on the ground," Habib told AFP.

"I made this 'boat' from refrigerator doors and cork - and thankfully it worked."

The fisherman stuffed cork into old fridge doors to make them buoyant and covered one side with wood and the other with plastic sheeting to help make the makeshift paddleboard waterproof.

Habib said he uses dough as bait and now fishes mainly inside the small port area.

“If we go [outside the fishermen’s harbour], the Israeli boats will shoot at us, and that’s a problem we suffer from a lot,” he said