Communication from Gaza is totally blocked except that from Hamas controlled media. However, with a new inspiring project the views of the Gazans are beginning to reach the outside world. Joseph Braude is the President of the Center for Peace Communications (CPC). He recently spoke to a Forum in a video about the center's innovative project, which provides a secure outlet for current Gaza Strip residents to speak "candidly" about their lives under Hamas rule.
CPC's Whispered in Gaza project is a series of
twenty-five video interviews with Palestinian Arabs,
translated into seven languages, who speak openly and without fear of Hamas
retaliation, secure in the knowledge that their identities and voices remain
anonymous via "video animation." This novel approach that brings to
light their "riveting and harrowing" testimonies, viewed millions of
times across the region and the West, is proving successful in breaking Hamas's
"communications blockade."
Previously, any attempt by journalists to challenge
the terror group's "narrative dominance within the region" resulted
in threats or deportation. As a result, not only has Hamas's brutal suppression
of Gaza's civilians gone largely unreported, but the group has also controlled
"the story of Gaza and broader Israeli-Palestinian issues" through
propaganda broadcasts from its bully pulpit.
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