User:John Cummings/Articles/Connecting Humanity

Connecting Humanity is a collective which reconnects internet access to people in Gaza using donated eSIMs. It is run by Ahmed El-Madhoun an Egyptian journalist, writer and activist. Israeli bombardment, electricity blockades and fuel shortages has caused the near-total collapse of Gaza’s largest cell network providers. El-Madhoun discovered that eSIMs could be used to reconnect people in Gaza by allowing them to connect to remote networks including Israeli networks.. By December 2023 200,000 people living in Gaza (around 10% of the population) had received internet access through an eSIM.