How can you see a future from within a box of matches?

An article about the tunnels from Egypt to Gaza in the Electronic Intifada site. The worker interviewed, Abu Hanin had this comment:

I don't have a future. As it is, there is no future in Gaza. I go across the entire width of Gaza on my motorcycle in 20 minutes. How can you see a future from within a box of matches?

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11122.shtml