Living Without Electricity in Gaza

Hey everyone. This video is going to answer the most frequent,

innocent,

non-innocent question I receive.

If I'm living or surviving a genocide, how I keep my

phone and camera charged. What is a

charging point

for

Gazans now?

Now it is life. I mean, for phones, for

laptops,

for everything. People start charging from the

morning because we don't have electricity, so we have to come and charge at the

charging point.

This is the lifeline. Without a mobile phone,

uh, and without electricity, people are dead.

If you're here and you need your laptop, phone,

batteries, fan, light, or even a nebulizer if you're sick,

plugging it into a wall is not an option.

How many years have we been without electricity,

and are the charging points enough

and an alternative?

We have been without it since before the war, but during the war it was completely

exacerbated. I mean, it used to be that we would get a little before the war,

but

after the war, for almost three years we have not seen

the sun as electricity.

It depends on the sun. If there is no sun, then there is no charging,

there is no

electricity

for

people.

That's why almost most of Gaza now relies

on solar panels to have their electricity.

But it's not sufficient at all because most of the solar

panels' infrastructure is already destroyed.

We wake up at eight in the morning, we clean the panel, clean the batteries.

Of course, people are busy with their own rubble,

cleaning their apartments,

cleaning their homes. So the dust is generally in the air,

so the panel gets dirty,

we have to wash

it

all the time.

People start from eight in the morning, they come to charge even when they go to

work, they take their phones with them. They put their phones on them.

It takes two to three hours because of the panel.

For three years, Israel has been preventing fuel,

batteries,

generators and solar panels from entering to Gaza.

Now, the only existing part of the solar panel

infrastructure is, uh, working as a paid

service for charging, and it's not enough for all people.

Whoever has a panel. The panel today, the energy, uh, we

also said is the lifeline. It is what runs many things for patients, uh,

for

patients, for all, for all people.