A Palestinian who gained hundreds of thousands of followers online by tending to his small plants under the bombs in a refugee camp has been killed in a suspected Israeli airstrike.
Medo Halimy aimed to plant something daily in Gaza – to “bring life to Earth,” as he said to his nearly 250,000 followers on his TikTok account that he started when he was forced to live in a tent encampment after fleeing his home.
The 19-year-old documented his project online, and called it his “Tent Life,” in posts that he transmitted to the outside world through a local internet café – a white tent where displaced Palestinians, like him, could get online for a while.