Medo Halimy, 19, (pictured) was hit by shrapnel from a blast in Khan Younis, southern Gaza on Monday while meeting with a friend and fellow collaborator Talal Murad.
A Palestinian gardener who gained 250,000 TikTok followers by tending to small plants in a refugee camp has been killed in a suspected Israel i airstrike.
The pair were in an area near the beach where displaced people have been sheltering when Halimy was struck, the Tamer Institute for Community Education told the BBC. Halimy became a TikTok and Instagram influencer after he started his so-called 'Tent Life' project, which saw him document his daily encounters after his family fled their home and were forced to live in a tent encampment
'He represented a message,' Murad said on Friday, still recovering from his shrapnel wounds and reeling from the Israeli airstrike that killed his friend. 'He represented hope and strength.' Halimy launched his TikTok account after taking refuge with his parents, four brothers and sister in Muwasi, the southern coastal area that Israel has designated a humanitarian safe zone
His friends said they had fled Israel's invasion of Gaza City to Khan Younis before fleeing the bombardment again earlier this year.Turning his camera to the details of his own daily life in the enclave, he reached viewers far and wide, showing the maddening tedium of war largely left out of breaking news coverage.
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world were captivated. Over the past several months of war, Halimy's videos went viral - some amassing more than 2 million views on TikTok. And when the sound of projectiles streaking through the skies over Gaza startles him, seeming to be alarmingly close by, he turns his camera back to a game of Monopoly.Tributes to Halimy kept pouring in on Friday. Murad, who collaborated with Halimy on 'The Gazan Experience,' said: 'We worked together, it was our kind of resistance that I hope to continue'
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