Abdullah Al-Haqim 
Gaza – After returning to the north Gaza StripAfter a journey of displacement that lasted for nearly a year after reaching the ceasefire agreement, Ahmed Shaqra decided to return to the “central Gaza” area again in order to preserve his job.
Shaqoura works from a distance in the field of montage with an Arab media institution, and it permanently needs the Internet, which is not easily available in the northern sector, and has been able to obtain the Internet service for free in an incubator established by the government media office inside the Al -Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
“The problem of the Internet has tortured me a lot since the beginning of the war, and I caused me great losses, and now I am far from my family in the north, in order to preserve my work I tried to work through one of the incubators in Gaza City, but the Internet is bad and the cost is high, and it reaches 5 or 7 shekels per hour (the dollar = 3.6 shekels),” Shaqoura told Al -Jazeera Net.
Even in the middle of the Strip, Shakoura suffers a lot in reaching the incubator, where he has long distances and at dangerous times at night, and stated that he survived death one night after he was returning from his work when he was intercepted by an Israeli -drowned plane of Kiwad Kabter in the middle of the street.
Series of suffering
Ahmed Al -Awadi has a “private” business incubator in Gaza City, accommodating about a hundred people. But after the return of the displaced from the southern Gaza Strip after reaching the ceasefire, it has received nearly 500 people looking for the resumption of their idle work or completing their studies.
Sometimes Al -Awadi is forced to receive nearly 200 people and apologize to the rest, causing severe crowding in the incubator.
“The majority of customers are from the remote workers and are trying to return to their jobs, they were badly programmers, designers, content writers or journalists, and there are general university and secondary students who are trying to remedy what they missed,” he told Al -Jazeera Net.
“Everyone is suffering, and the customers, I and the customers, operate the electricity generator for one hour, costs me 400 shekels, and this is borne by the customer who pays 7 shekels for one hour, as well as there is no booklet or offices in the sector after using it as a wood to cook.”
“The customer has long distances to walk to reach us due to the weakness and cost of transportation, and he is surprised that the Internet service sometimes is poor (from the source) or that electricity is cut off for the generator, and pays a large amount. It is a series of endless suffering.”
Al -Awadi gets the Internet from the Palestinian Telecom Company through an air force due to the lack of wires due to the destruction that was inflicted on Gaza City and the occupation refused to enter it, which makes the service volatile and normal at times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mooy315sms0
An economic impact
Because of the tremendous destruction operations carried out by the occupation army in most areas of the Gaza Strip, especially in its north, internet service is still cut off from large areas there, and the Palestinian Telecom Company – the main provider of internet service in the sector – finds great difficulties in re -introducing the service as before as a result of the occupation restrictions and preventing it from entering the necessary spare parts and wires.
Israel has repeatedly cut off the communications and the Internet from areas in the sector to isolate them from the outside world, in a move countd by Palestinian factions “a crime aimed at isolating the Palestinians in the sector and displacing them.”
The Director General of the Gaza Governorate Trade and Industry Chamber, Maher Al -Tabaa, refers to the great losses incurred by the economy due to the interruption or weakness of the Internet.
He pointed out that the occupation prohibits the repair of communications and the Internet networks and the introduction of the necessary wires and parts, at a time when citizens suffer strongly because of this problem, and they have to walk long distances in search of the Internet and to pay large sums that exceed their financial ability in order to obtain poor service, indicating that many have lost their work because of this.
The crisis prompted the emergence of the “street internet” phenomenon, as small companies put “rifles” on the electricity poles in the streets to provide a limited service to the population in exchange for financial amounts according to the clock system.
Impact on education
Yara Abdo, a student at the College of Pharmacy from Khan Younis, says that the lack of the Internet has a great impact on the academic level for all students, and she adds to Al -Jazeera Net, “My studies depend on the online search. I am studying in a medical field that requires many research requirements that are not currently available.”
Yara is forced to walk long distances to reach some of the Internet points that provide weak services, and remains throughout the day in order to search for the information you need, and adds, “Prior to the aggression I was mainly dependent on the Internet to communicate with university professors and exchange experiences with my colleagues, I am currently missing a lot of information and experiences due to the internet interruptions.”
In turn, the Director General of Public Relations at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Gaza Ahmed Al -Najjar confirms that the interruption or weakness of the Internet greatly affects the educational process, especially in light of the increasing dependence on e -learning and digital platforms as a major source of lessons and references.
He adds to Al -Jazeera Net, “Students who rely on the Internet to access educational materials, attend virtual classes, and communicate with their teachers, face many difficulties for lack of service or interruption, which leads to a decrease in scientific achievement and the delay in completing the tasks and their willingness to exams, as all exams depend on calculated applications such as the Teams application and the Wise Wise application ( School).
As for high school students (Tawjihi), Al -Najjar says that the absence of the Internet becomes more dangerous, as students depend on electronic sources to review lessons, solve experimental tests, and benefit from the illustrated explanations that help them in a deep understanding of the curricula.
