Google Play removes Gaza game

In response to Israeli pressure Google Play has removed the Gaza Man game.

Yesterday afternoon, Gaza’s children found themselves unable to find the link to download the game on Google Play.

“It is new, but it became my favourite game,” Sally Haddad, 12, from Gaza told Days of Palestine.

“I had played the game on my father’s mobile for three days. On the fourth day, he bought me a new mobile to download the game and play it myself, but unfortunately, I did not find it,” Haddad said.

Gaza Man is a Palestinian game simulating a battle between a Palestinian fighter covering his face with the Palestinian Kuffiyeh (scarf) and aggressive forces using automatic rifles, tanks, drones, fighter jets, etc…

The game starts, as it is clear in the game trailer, as the aggressive forces kidnap a boy playing football and harass his mother. Then, the fighter appears targeting these forces and causing them severe losses.

The game can still be downloaded and installed from the Gaza Man website directly on to Android devices.

Israeli pressure

Three days after the game was uploaded to Google Play, it was taken down by Google, who claimed it incites hatred against a certain nation. However, it only shows the Palestinian as a superhero.

The game received a 4.9 out of five star rating on the app store and largely positive comments from its users.

However, Israelis and the Israeli media claimed that the fighter in the game “guns down an endless stream of Israeli soldiers using an assortment of weapons.” They described it as aggressive.