Palestinian financial crisis: Mohammed

My family was badly affected after American and European aid was cut off.

MEET THE PANEL Name: Mohammed Fathy Fayed Age: 21 Lives: Gaza Works: Student

My father is a teacher in a school run by the Palestinian Authority and he has not been paid for three months.

He is no longer able to give me money for transport, therefore I can't go to university since it is very far away from where I live.

I feel my education and the prospects for my future are threatened.

I don't belong to any one faction, but I support Hamas on certain points.

Fatah was in power for a long time and it didn't manage to change our living conditions.

Even when Fatah was in power, the EU and the US would threaten to cut off aid to make the authority concede to their demands.

What I don't like about Hamas is that they don't apply Islam in its proper sense, even though they are an Islamist movement.

Islam forbids a Muslim from killing innocent Muslims, but this is what some of Hamas' supporters are doing to other Palestinians.

I think that if conditions don't improve, President Mahmoud Abbas may have to intervene and ask Hamas to step down.