This story is adapted from Mohammed R. Mhawish and Aseel Mousa’s recent Rest of World feature, They were building a tech scene in Gaza. Then came the war.
Gaza Sky Geeks may be the world’s unlikeliest tech hub. The startup accelerator was founded in 2011 when Google donated $1 million to support a permanent organization inside Gaza itself, which was operated by the global humanitarian nonprofit Mercy Corps.
Over the next decade, GSG trained thousands of young people in coding,…

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