Mustafa’s impactful song ‘Gaza Is Calling’ features Bella Hadid

Acclaimed Sudanese-Canadian musician and poet Mustafa has shared a powerful new single and video ‘Gaza Is Calling’ which features Bella Hadid.

Mustafa’s impactful new single and video, ‘Gaza Is Calling’ was originally written in 2020. It tells the story of Mustafa’s childhood friendship with a boy from Gaza.

The video song has been directed by Palestinian actor Hiam Abbas and features model Bella Hadid and Gazan rapper MC Abdul.

“‘Gaza is Calling’ is about my first experience with heartbreak in friendship,” Mustafa said in a statement.

When he was 11, the singer formed a deep bond with a Palestinian boy in the Toronto housing project they both lived in. “Not even this love was a match for the violence we were up against,” Mustafa explains.

The video follows a narrative led by Hadid and MC Abdul as they gaze at old photos and sit with grief together, intercut with a simultaneous story of Israa Ahmed and her brother, two children in a Jenin refugee camp that’s marked by destruction. Though worlds apart, the two stories are visually knit together through parallel images: Hadid embraces Abdul, and Ahmed embraces her brother.

Net proceeds from “Gaza Is Calling” will go towards the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund, which is providing food, health care, and other services in Gaza, where 37,000 people have been killed by Israel since October, following Hamas’ October 7 attacks on Israel, which killed 1,200 people.

Musicians in Canada and across the globe have been speaking out against the war in Gaza, where the International Court of Justice ruled it “plausible” that Israel has violated the Genocide Convention.