Third Communications Blackout Hits Gaza

autotldr Bot , 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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Gaza was plunged into a communications blackout on Sunday for the third time in 10 days, again leaving its people without access to internet or phone services as night fell and Israel’s heavy bombardment of the enclave continued.

The widespread blackout began shortly before sunset, around 4:20 p.m. local time, according to NetBlocks, an internet monitoring service.

The director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said it was “very concerned” about the outage and reports of heavy bombardment in the enclave.

The blackout was confirmed on Sunday by Gaza’s main telecommunications provider, Paltel, which said that the “complete interruption of all communications and Internet services” was because of a cutoff “by the Israeli side.”

The director of NetBlocks, Alp Toker, said in an interview on Sunday that his organization was unable to immediately determine whether the blackout had been caused by Israel taking technical measures or by physical damage to Gaza’s telecommunications infrastructure.

After the first blackout, two American officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said the United States believed that Israel was responsible for the cutoff of communications and that they had urged Israeli counterparts to do what they could to restore service.

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photonic_sorcerer , 9 months ago

One of the best wartime strategies is to cut off the enemies methods of communication.

Anyone know if Hamas has radio?

pan_troglodytes , 9 months ago

presumably. just with a simple transmitter you can still broadcast 5+ miles, though I’d think their tunnels would have hardwired com lines run

photonic_sorcerer , 9 months ago

Okay, so they’re just hindering the civilian populace with this, got it.

Annoyed_Crabby , 9 months ago

Journalist. They are actively hindering reporting on the ground so they can control the media. They also killed the family of a head journalist from al jazeera, and also killed reuter’s journalist.

Corkyskog , 9 months ago

Source for the Reuters, I missed that one.

Annoyed_Crabby , 9 months ago

reuters.com/…/reuters-videographer-killed-souther…

This is an old one:

apnews.com/…/israel-middle-east-business-israel-p…

aljazeera.com/…/israeli-forces-killed-abu-akleh-w…

steventhedev , 9 months ago

More likely a temporary measure while they move forces through areas they suspect have IEDs planted. Disabling the mobile networks will prevent them from using cellphones for remote detonation - a common Hamas method of detonating suicide bombers and IEDs.

Chances are once they’ve finished maneuvers they’ll dig in to new positions, mark off IEDs they do find, and restore service.

photonic_sorcerer , 9 months ago

That’s acually not a bad idea.

satan , 9 months ago

Yes. The IDF sends them the location for the next hospital to launch their missiles from, that get promptly shut down by the iron dome. Then they get to claim they’re the good guys and warn the evacuation and turn that hospital to the ground to displace more people.