A young Palestinian entrepreneur opened a cafe that provides Internet and Electricity in Gaza
Despite Israelis’ continued aggressions, a young Palestinian man has decided to invest and open the innovation-café that supplies electricity for students and other individuals who work from home during the Gaza Strip’s blackouts.
Mohammed Kurayk, who had to leave his home in Rafah in southern Gaza and move to the Al-Mawasi area in western Khan Yunis, was determined to solve the critical issues affecting the area after he had arrived, and those were mainly electricity and internet problems. Kurayk told Anadolu Agency that looking for a suitable place took a month because the Israelis destroyed many shops and workplaces.
Situated in the coastal area, the cafe has a seating capacity of forty users and has emerged to be a hub for most students, freelancers/remote workers, and journalists. It allows them to charge their devices during the day and be connected to electricity and the internet.
Alaa al-Kabriti, a young Palestinian woman who often visits the place to develop her design projects, expressed satisfaction with the symbolic fees that enable one to work in a conducive environment. Even now, when the coffee shops along the coast have been attacked by gunboats, and people run for their lives, al-Kabriti remained seated to finish her work.
‘It saved my life’: the business’s name was back in use many times – share the story; another frequent cafe client was graphic designer Mohammed al-Amoudi. <|human|>Graphic designer Mohammed al-Amoudi said the cafe was a lifesaver after the attacks interfered with his work. Returning to business projects was made possible for him by the cafe.
Interior design student Hebatullah al-Jazzar also finds ways to learn, using the internet provided at the cafe for her lessons and projects. She told her desire for the war to be over and life to be more or less back to its usual state soon.
Israel’s attack on Gaza, even after the UN Security Council ordered it to stop following the ceasefire Statement, has annoyed the world. Violence has claimed the lives of 39,193 Palestinians, excluding armed militants, primarily women, and children, and left 90,421 more people injured per local health organizations.
Ten natural, cultural, and religious sites in Gaza, which Israel targeted, are now flattened in more than nine months of the operation; the Strip’s power supply was demolished in addition to severe strangulation and bombardment that hinder the Strip’s ability to import food, water, and medical supplies. The ICC has accused Israel of genocide and demanded that it cease hostilities in Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians had fled before the invasion in this city on 6 May.
