Gaza – After returning to the North GazaAfter a trip that lasted almost a year after concluding the cease-fire agreement, Ahmed Shaqra decided to return to the “Central Gaza” area again in order to preserve his work.
Shaqoura works remotely in the mounting field with an institution of the Arab media, and he needs permanence on the Internet, which is not easily available in the northern sector, and was able to obtain the Internet service for free in an incubator established by the government’s media office inside the Al -Aqsa Martyrs hospital.
“The Internet problem tortured me a lot since the start of the war, and I have caused 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 of Gaza City, but the dollar is bad and the cost is high,” said Shaqoura to Al-Jazea.
Even in the middle of the strip, Shakoura suffers a lot from reaching the incubator, where he has long distances and at dangerous moments at night, and said that he had survived death one evening after his return from his work when he was intercepted by an Israeli plane of Kiwad Kabter in the middle of the street.
Suffering series
Ahmed al -wadi has a “private” commercial incubator in Gaza City, welcoming a hundred people. But after the return of the move from the Southern Gaza Strip after reaching the ceasefire, he received nearly 500 people in search of the resumption of their inactive work or to finish their studies.
Sometimes Al -Awadi is forced to receive nearly 200 people and apologize to the rest, causing severe overcrowding in the incubator.
“The majority of customers come from workers at a distance and try to return to their work, they were seriously programmers, designers, content editors or journalists, and there are university and secondary students who try to remedy what they missed,” he told Al -jazeera Net.
“Everyone is suffering, and customers, me and customers, use the electricity generator for an hour, cost me 400 shekels, and this is worn by the customer who pays 7 shekels for an hour, as well as no booklet or office 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 transport, and it is surprised that the Internet service is sometimes mediocre (of the source) or that electricity is cut for the generator and pays a large quantity. It is a series of endless suffering.”
Al -Awadi obtains the Internet of the Palestinian telecommunications company through an air force due to the lack of sons due to the destruction which was imposed on Gaza City and the occupation refused to enter it, which makes the service volatile and normal sometimes.
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An economic impact
Due to the formidable destruction operations carried out by the occupation army in most regions of the Gaza Strip, especially in its North, the Internet service is still cut in large areas there, and the Palestinian telecommunications company – the main provider of Internet services in the sector – finds great difficulties in preventing it from preventing it from seizing the necessary restoration parts.
Israel has repeatedly cut the communications and internet of the areas of the sector to isolate them from the outside world, in a decision of the account by the Palestinian factions “a crime aimed at isolating Palestinians in the sector and moving them”.
The director general of the Gaza Governor’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Maher Al -Tabaa, refers to the major losses suffered by the economy due to the interruption or weakness of the Internet.
He pointed out that the occupation prohibits the repair of communications and internet networks and the introduction of the necessary wires and documents, at a time when citizens suffer strongly because of this problem, and they must travel long distances in search of the Internet and to pay large sums which exceed their financial capacity in order to obtain a bad service, indicating that many have lost their work because of this.
The crisis has caused the emergence of the “Street Internet” phenomenon, while small businesses put “rifles” on electric posts on the streets to provide a service limited 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 of 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 online research. I study in a medical field which requires many research requirements that are not currently available.”
Yara is obliged to walk long distances to reach certain internet points which provide weak services, and remain throughout the day in order to search for the information you need, and adds: “Before the assault, I depended mainly on the Internet to communicate with university professors and exchange experiences with my colleagues, I currently lack a lot of information and experiences due to Internet interruptions.”
In turn, the Director General of Public Relations of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Gaza Ahmed Al -Najjar confirms that the interruption or weakness of the Internet affects the educational process considerably, in particular in the light of increasing dependence on the e-appareil 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 education materials, awaits virtual classes, and communicates 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 will Exams Depend On Calculated Applications Such AS The Teams Application and the Wise Wise Application (School).
As for secondary school students (Tawjihi), Al -Najjar says that the absence of the Internet becomes more dangerous, because students depend on electronic sources to examine lessons, resolve experimental tests and benefit from the illustrated explanations that help them in a deep understanding of the programs.