The 19-year-old Palestinian TikTok star Medo Halimy began making his “tent life” video series when he took refuge with his family earlier this year in a strip of southern Gaza that Israel has designated a humanitarian safe zone.
In this undated photo provided by Helmi Hirez, Mohamed Halimy, left, and twin brothers Mohammed Hirez, center, and Helmi Hirez, right, stand on a beach in Gaza. .As he often did in videos documenting life's mundane absurdities in the enclave, Halimy on Monday walked to his local internet cafe — rather, a tent with Wi-Fi where displaced Palestinians can connect to the outside world — to meet his friend and collaborator Talal Murad.
“Medo was the life of the hangout ... humor and kindness and wit, all things that can never be forgotten,” said Heba al-Saidi, alumni coordinator for the U.S. government-sponsored Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study program and a friend of Halimy's. “He was bound for greatness, but he was taken too soon.”
The war has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians — according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn't say how many of the dead were militants — and spawned a humanitarian disaster. It has also transformed legions of ordinary teenagers, who have nothing to do every day but survive, into war correspondents for the social media age.
“If you wonder what living in a tent is actually like, come with me to show you how I spend my day,” he told the camera during his first of many “tent life” diaries filmed from the sprawling encampment. Even when recounting tragedies or fretting over Israel's pulverizing bombardment, Halimy's friends said that he found salve in channeling his grief and anxiety into deadpan humor.
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