Virtual reality tools offer escape to blockaded Gaza youth - Yahoo Finance

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

GAZA (Reuters) - The proprietor of Gaza's archetypal virtual world gaming cafe is offering a phantasy satellite of action, music, and sports to young radical who person grown up nether the blockade.

"Often galore of the younker who travel present to play they look for an flight from the world they unrecorded in," Firas Al-Khodary, the proprietor of VR Station successful Gaza city, said.

With opportunities for question ruled retired for astir radical by the years-long borderline closure imposed by Israel and Egypt, the online realm is an outlet for young radical bare for amusement and distraction.

"I determination into cities, antithetic places, mountains, and oceans, cities that are intolerable for america to visit," said 22 year-old Youssef Al-Qudairi.

According to Al-Khodary, virtual enactment and combat games are the astir fashionable among young men, portion young women thin to favour sports, euphony and travel.

"Since we are blockaded and it is hard to question and determination from 1 spot to another, we travel to VR and marque up for each these things and we unrecorded it successful the virtual reality," said 16 year-old Nisreen Shamalakh arsenic she enactment connected her headset.

(Writing by Nidal Almughrabi; editing by Barbara Lewis)