The Omar Herz Show
Palestinian Instagram creators
The Omar Herz Show is an Instagram account in which Palestinian friends Omar Shareed and Mohammed Herzallah documented their daily lives during the Gaza war. The account quickly garnered millions of followers and received attention from media sources.
In August 2024, they were ranked #17 at Rolling Stone's list of "25 Most Influential Creators of 2024", with Steffi Cao noting that the friends "have shared a perspective that no other media outlet would be able to offer, recording the smallest details of how civilians adapt and survive."
They were friends with fellow Palestinian creator Medo Halimy, who died in August 2024 following an Israeli airstrike.
History
Shareed and Herzallah met in school in Gaza City, but weren't much close back then. They had just gotten into college (Herzallah in Engineering and Shareed in Economics or Business Administration) when Israel started bombing Gaza in response to the October 7 attacks.
Herzallah's family left their house and belongings and took shelter in a stranger's apartment while Shareed's family (a younger and an older brother, one of them sick and dependent on medication that requires refrigeration, and his mother, a journalist and Al-Aqsa University graduate) fled to Nuseirat first and then Deir al-Balah, where they became good friends after learning that they were the only ones from their school group there.
In April 2024, at the ages of 18 (Shareed) and 19 (Herzallah), they began to document their daily routine in war and reached the 1,5 follower mark on Instagram in two months and 1,6 million in three. The pair started to share videos as they evacuated from one survival tent to the next one. As they approached the Egypt–Gaza border, they acquired an eSIM with which they were able to start editing and uploading videos, with the initial intention to promote their eSIM sales business. The pair then set out to reconnect their community with the internet so there would be an escape from the usually negative news on their area while also investing in the business to finance further evacuations and family expenses and founding the Karawan Chess Club for displaced children (with their friend Mustafa Saleh, then 17), which eventually secured sponsorship from Chess.com.
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