The push to keep Gazans online.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Lily Jammale. Today marks one month since Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,400 people and taking hundreds of hostages.

Israel has since responded by bombarding Gaza, killing more than 10,000 people there,

according to Gaza's Ministry of Health.

The Israeli government has shut off power and fuel supplies to the more than 2 million

mostly Palestinians in Gaza.

This weekend, Gazans experienced the third internet and phone blackout since Israel declared

war on Hamas.

Just over the border in Egypt, journalist Mirna El Helbeui has been working to keep people in Gaza connected online to the rest of the world.

She's part of a small group of people collecting donations of so-called E-Sims which let users activate a cell plan on a mobile network without needing an actual

Simcard.

They work through scanning a QR code or putting an activation code manually in your phone and then you can connect your

mobile to the internet. And you've gotten thousands of people to donate these e-sims. Do you know how many people or families in Gaza you've been able to help keep online because of those donations?

I've had 6,000 more than 6,000 people in Gaza to stay connected.

That's a lot of people. Yes and we have received more than 16,000 A.C.M. donation from across the world.

So that's making a difference, it sounds like.

Of course, it's making a difference.

But the right for communication and internet access now is like the same right for food and water and proper way of living.

So cutting off the communication and the internet access

for 2 million people, for me this is outrageous.

Even the 6,000 activated isms won't make a difference. We need like 2 million

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