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Now, with a tentative ceasefire plan in place, the GSG community is surveying the damage done to Gaza’s tech scene — and asking how to rebuild it. “If there is still a Gaza,” said the organization’s former director Ryan Sturgill, “there will continue to be a Gaza Sky Geeks.”

Many Gaza Sky Geeks members have remained engaged in supporting the GSG network — determined to preserve a vision for Gaza that the war all but extinguished

In the two years since, hundreds of the staff, teachers, students, mentors, and founders involved with GSG have been forcibly displaced and subjected to extreme trauma. Some have been killed. Others managed to flee Gaza but live in mourning

Then came the war. Just days after October 7, Gaza Sky Geeks’ office was blown to pieces by an Israeli airstrike. Within a month the Israeli military had already destroyed much of the neighborhood. This satellite image was taken on April 3, 2024

GSG’s primary office was located in Gaza City’s Al Rimal, a buzzy waterside neighborhood known for avenues lined with cafes, ice cream parlors, and banks. This satellite image was taken on July 15, 2023

GSG trained thousands of young people in coding, marketing, graphic design, and entrepreneurship, offering a rare gateway to remote work and global markets from within a besieged territory. It also offered a glimpse of an international future that Israel’s blockade tried to deny