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Alhabel uses sign language to raise awareness of fighting in Gaza
Gazans feel unheard -of -the -date despite the mass of suffering and the number of high deaths
No ceasefire in sight when Israel plans to control the city of Gaza
Gaza, 8 August (Reuters) – Bass Alhabel was among the ruins of gaza, with people on the floor around him when the bullets were flying, and filmed by sign language to explain the danger of war against fellow citizens and his followers on social media.
Alhabel, 30 years old, describes in his instagram account as a “deaf journalist in Gaza,” he says he wants to raise awareness of conflict – since the destruction of Israeli air strikes to starvation, which now affects most of the population – by informing Palestinians and people abroad.
Many gazans, bombed by Israel for nearly two years, complain that the world does not hear their voices despite the suffering of the number of victims, which exceeds 60,000 people, according to the health authorities in Gaza in a demolished enclave.
“I wanted to get my voice into the world and the voices of deaf people who couldn’t speak or hear, get my voice there so someone could help us,” he said through his friend and interpreter Mohammed Moshta, whom he met during the war.
“I tried to help, shoot and shoot a video from here and publish them so that we could hear our voices in the world.”
Alhabel has an Instagram after 141,000. His page, which shows it in a bottle jacket and helmet, contains images of starvation, harmful children and other suffering.
He makes a video and then returns to a tent to edit-one of many, where the Palestinians searched for shelter and safety during the war, which exploded when Hamas attacked the militants of Israel in October 2023 and attracted massive retaliation. Alhabel produced images of people who gathered flour from the ground while using sign language to explain the situation of the Gazan and strengthened the view of the global hunger monitor that warned the famine that took place.
“As you can see, people collect flour mixed with sand,” he said.
Alhabel and his family were displaced after the war. They stayed at school with tents.
“There was no room for one to relax a little. I stayed in that school for a year and a half,” he explained.
Alhabel is likely to be busy for some time. There are no signs of ceasefires on the horizon despite the mediation efforts.
The Israeli political security cabinet approved the plan early on Friday to take over the control of the city of Gaza, because the country expands its military operations, despite intensive criticism at home and abroad during the war.
“We want this situation to be resolved so that we can all be happy, so I can feed my children and life can be beautiful,” Alhabel said. (Writing Michael Georgy; editing Sharon Singleton)
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