Bella Hadid, Mustafa the Poet release powerful song in solidarity with Gaza

Supermodel Bella Hadid and Sudanese-Canadian singer and poet Mustafa, released a song in solidarity with Gaza, which also featured scenes from the Jenin refugee camp.

The song narrated the trauma Palestinians endure and the long shadow it casts on their new lives.

Although the music piece was crafted in 2020, Sudanese-Canadian singer and poet Mustafa opted to release it as a benefit single in light of the ongoing violence against Palestinians in Israel.

All profits earned through "Gaza is Calling" will directly go to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund, providing life-saving food and healthcare in Gaza. 

“'Gaza Is Calling' is about my first experience with heartbreak in friendship,” Mustafa revealed.

Explaining the song's backstory, he shared it was inspired by his experiences living with a close Palestinian friend he shared a home with in Toronto.

"We were inseparable. With him, I shared one of the deepest loves I’ve ever known. He grew up alongside me in a housing project in Toronto. And not even this love was a match for the violence we were up against; the one in our new home, the one that followed him from Gaza like a cold wind," the singer said. 

"In the end, it was all the bloodshed between us that didn’t allow us to see each other without tears appearing. One of the last notes he sent to me was about how we would continue on in another life,” Mustafa added.

In the music video, Bella Hadid and Palestinian rapper MC Abdul delved into their past through old photographs and found themselves united by a sense of grief, while living in the West.

At the same time, Israa Ahmed and her brother, Muhammad were seen enduring a soul-shattering ordeal together in the Jenin refugee camp.

Since October 2023, Israeli genocide in the enclave has claimed the lives of more than 37,000 Palestinians, leaving thousands injured.