Mustafa Shares Video For New Song “Gaza Is Calling”: Watch

Mustafa shared a new song, “Gaza is calling”, with the net proceeds benefiting the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. Watch the video, directed by the director and Succession Actor Hiam Abbas, below.

Mustafa, who is Canadian from Sudan, wrote “Gaza Is Calling” in 2020, but chose to release it as a feature single in light of Israel's latest attacks on Palestine. Palestinian American model Bella Hadid and Gazan rapper MC Abdul appear in the video, which includes footage shot in Jenin last month.

Mustafa stated in a press release:

“Gaza Is Calling” is about my first experience with broken friendships. I was 11 when I met this boy from Gaza. We were inseparable. I shared one of the deepest loves I've ever known with him, he grew up next to me in a housing project in Toronto. And even that love was no match for the violence we faced. the one in our new home, the one that followed him from Gaza like a cold wind. In the end it was all the blood that was spilled between us that didn't allow us to look at each other without tears appearing, and one of the last notes he sent me was about how we would go on in another life.

The string sample is the Arabic nostalgia we share, the Auto-Tuned Arabic Sing is the balance we tried to achieve as boys of cultural empires in a small hood, and the oud is the instrument of our homelands, Sudan and Palestine.

Speaking about the video, Mustafa added: