The people of the Gaza Strip witness how attention in the region shifts toward Iran, which has been involved in an escalating conflict with Israel since Friday, when the Zionist entity bombed Tehran and other Iranian cities.

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“Every day, sixty people, a hundred people die, in addition to the injured,” Salhiya al Deeb told EFE from Gaza. “They only talk about Iran, and we have been forgotten,” she added.

According to Gazans, the bombings against the Strip have decreased since Israel opened fire on Iran; however, projectiles continue to fall on a territory that has been especially battered for more than a year and a half.

A woman from the Al-Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza City, Siham al Deeb, says she has noticed a decline in coverage reporting on the situation in the Strip and denouncing the crimes committed by Israel in the Palestinian enclave “since people have been absorbed by the war in Iran.”

“All of this has decreased compared to what it was before,” she says.

Amid the daily casualties, many Gazans use the internet not only to stay informed about the world but also to communicate and ensure that their family members in different parts of the Strip are safe from the bombings.

Last week, most of Gaza was left without communication when all internet and landline telephone services were interrupted by the Israeli government.

“Without the internet, we are worth nothing and know nothing about the news of the world,” explains Mohamed Mhaiseen, displaced from the Al-Shujaiya neighborhood, considered a safer area within Gaza’s capital.

On this line, refugee Yaser Saadat accuses Israel of intentionally cutting off internet service in the Strip “to prevent our message from reaching the world, so that we cannot explain the suffering of the people, so that we cannot document the crimes they are committing in Gaza.” Therefore, he calls for “solidarity” from the Arab world.

“Despite the war in Iran, Gaza will continue to exist and we will return to our homes and lands,” Mohamed agrees.

Medical sources said on Wednesday that the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 55,637, the majority of whom are children and women, since the start of the Israeli occupation’s aggression on October 7, 2023.

They noted that a number of victims remain under the rubble and in the streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach them.

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