The New York Times reported on the 29th the activities of journalists who resumed communication activities within two days by activating digital eSIM through SNS in the Gaza Strip, where internet communication was completely blocked.
The founder of Mobileye, an Israeli self-driving company, published an op-ed in an Israeli daily newspaper on the 29th calling for the "extraction of Netanyahu and the cabinet."
Mirna El Helbawi, a freelance writer who had been delivering relief supplies to the Gaza Strip and maintaining internal communications from Cairo, Egypt, was unable to use a digital phone from an Israeli mobile phone company that was easy to obtain in the Gaza Strip during the communications blackout on the 27th. The eSIM card shared an appeal with its 750,000 Instagram followers to help keep Gaza online and restore communications.
El Helbawi's post sparked a widespread digital effort to avoid a communications blackout in Gaza and connect Palestinian journalists, aid workers and doctors with activists abroad.
She appealed for the restoration of communications in Gaza through eSIM cards that can be purchased by anyone, anywhere, while activists around the world are calling for step-by-step instructions on how to purchase eSIMs and activate cellular plans on behalf of residents trapped in Gaza. Posted on X (Twitter).
Ms. El Helbawi scanned the We started by purchasing a serviceable eSIM, receiving a QR code, sending it as a text message to residents in the Gaza Strip, and the recipient scans the QR code to activate it.
Around the same time, Ahmed Elmadhoun, a 26-year-old freelance journalist and digital creator, was standing on the roof of a hospital in Khan Younis, searching for an internet connection.
He and his friends had purchased a rare Israeli SIM card for $100 that morning, and although access to Israeli mobile networks was cut off and service was unsustainable, they occasionally had brief internet connections on their outdoor roof amid Israeli air raids.
On the night of the 29th, his internet connection was temporarily lost and then reconnected, so he asked his 17,000 followers for help.
Helbawi, 200 miles away in Cairo, saw his post, and just six minutes later she replied, "Me me me."
Mrs. El Helbawi in Cairo sent about a dozen QR codes to Mr. El-Madhoun in the Gaza Strip, who shared them with reporters and medical staff at Khan Younis Hospital.
“In less than 24 hours, hundreds of eSIMS have been distributed across the Gaza Strip,” Ms. El Helbawi told the New York Times. “We have now partnered with eSIM provider Simly to help thousands of Palestinians in Gaza. “We are connecting them to mobile phone service and the Internet,” he said.
“After several attempts, I downloaded it, scanned the code, and was able to activate my cellular plan with roaming service within minutes,” said El-Helmound, from Gaza, who initially had to be connected long enough to receive a QR code. told the NYT.
The NYT said, “The ripple effect of Mr. El Helbawi’s efforts was felt across Gaza last weekend,” and “Mr. El Helbawi’s post sparked a widespread digital effort to avoid a communications blackout in Gaza, with Palestinian journalists, aid workers, “We connected activists overseas so that doctors could have contact with the outside world,” he said.
Cairo's El Helbawi wrote to
“This all happened as a spontaneous act,” he told the NYT in a phone interview. “I expect thousands of people from all over the world, from Europe, the United States, Latin America, etc., to be ready to help Palestinians get proper internet access.” “I couldn’t do it,” he said.
“We were able to reclaim the voice of Gaza,” El-Madhoun, a Gaza resident, told the New York Times by phone. said.
“It was difficult. The internet kept crashing. They saw one message I sent and then disappeared,” said Mrs. El Helbawi from Cairo. “For two days, my faith in humanity was restored.”
In the Gaza Strip, internet and phone connections were cut off throughout the area starting on the 27th, and the Israeli military's ground attack operations expanded.
Amnon Shashua, founder of Mobileye, a world-class Israeli self-driving car technology company, and an international digital bank and artificial intelligence entrepreneur, called on the 29th to immediately oust Prime Minister Netanyahu and his government.
Shashua wrote in an article for the Israeli daily Calcalist that day, “The Netanyahu government has committed ‘failure, disharmony, and incompetence’ since Hamas gunmen crossed into the Gaza Strip on the 7th and went on a deadly rampage in a southern Israeli town.” "The losses must be reduced and dealt with quickly. The only solution to the current situation in Israel is a change of government, and this must happen immediately."
Shashua continued: “A government that appears to be more interested in political survival than ‘national interest’ could be replaced without holding new elections, minimizing political chaos and forming a new coalition within the current parliament.” .
Shasua co-founded Mobileye in 1999, listed Intel for $1.5 billion in 2017, and founded One Zero, a digital bank, and AI3 Labs, an artificial intelligence (AI) company.
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