GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Jobs are limited in the Gaza Strip, which is why some college grads wind up working in fast food — a really fast, and really risky business. They deliver food and other products, zipping through streets on motorbikes with baskets strapped to the back.

Mohammad al-Madani, vice president of Yamama delivery company, employs 40 deliverymen and 15 other workers. He told Al-Monitor that most of the deliverymen hold university degrees or are university students who joined the company due to tough living conditions in the Gaza Strip and the lack of job opportunities.

Yamama President Khalil al-Frangi developed the idea of a delivery company while studying in Jordan. Upon his return to Gaza, Frangi launched the project in May 2010 with $3,000 and two staff members, according to Madani. Yamama delivers relatively small freight such as food, papers and medicine, and bigger objects such as furniture and home appliances.

The company averaged 15 to 20 customers during its first year, Madani said. That number has now reached 15,000 customers and 500 orders per day. According to Frangi, business is still increasing, mainly because of Yamama's quick delivery and low fees, which range from $1.50 to $2 inside Gaza City and $10 in regions farther away. Also, some of Yamama's competitors have gone out of business. Despite rising demand for such services in the Gaza Strip over the past few years, about half of the 20 delivery businesses that operated there in 2014 closed their doors just in the past three months.