Like every morning, I picked up my newspaper to read the headlines on the front page. An interesting headline grasped my attention: Students from Gaza design an electronic car.

The article says that the students heard about a contest that will be held in the UK this year, and decided to go for it. It took the students two months to gather all the needed tools and equipment, which they got from old cars. Afterward, they worked on turning the car’s engine into an electronic one, they next built a body from fiber glass material. The article mentioned that the process needed around six months, 4000 $, to finally come up with a car with a speed of 100 km per hour.

I might not have stopped at the article if it was talking about American students, European ones, or maybe Arabs from countries other than Palestine. But the news was about Palestinian students, and not just Palestinians, but students from Gaza; the same Gaza that has been under siege for three years now, the same Gaza that received its new year gift in the form of bombs and shots, yet those students were able to do it against all odds. Lack of resources, food or medications was not enough to stop them from working hard for six months on a project that they may or may not be able to send over to the UK for the contest (considering the seige Israel is stressing around Gaza).

They may be able to destroy mosques in Gaza, they may be able to demolish hospitals in Gaza, but they will never be able to break the PEOPLE of Gaza.