As of today, over two million Palestinians are reported to be enduring acute food shortages and struggling for potable water in the Gaza Strip. Famine has gripped the Palestinian territory, with the UN reporting that 96% of the population faces crisis-level hunger in 2025. However, people in Gaza have a digital lifeline—smartphones, and the internet—through which they are documenting Israeli airstrikes, mass displacements, and deaths. If there is a shortage of food and water, how do Gazans have access to the internet?
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The Gaza Strip, one of the two Palestinian territories, has been turned into a pile of rubble by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, left over 1,200 civilians dead in Israel. Reports say 90% of the buildings in Gaza have been demolished by the IDF. Deaths, from malnutrition and dropping munitions, are frequent.
The Western media sanitises such gore in their news reports. But Gazans have, over the last two years, live-streamed everything unfiltered—bombs raining on Nuseirat refugee camps, missiles hittin
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