Telephone and Internet lines cut in the Gaza Strip this Sunday by Israel, for the third time since the start of the war, on October 7, announced the Palestinian operator Paltel.
“We regret to announce the complete shutdown of communications and Internet services in Gaza after the Israeli side shut down the servers,” Paltel said in a statement.
Shortly after the blackout, The Israeli army launched intense bombardments in Gaza City. and other areas of the northern Gaza Strip.
The explosions were so intense that they could be heard in Rafah, in the far south of the Palestinian territory, according to an AFP journalist present at the scene.
On October 7, Hamas – classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Israel – carried out a Attack of unprecedented dimensions in Israeli territorydoing more than 1,400 deadmostly civilians, and more than 200 hostages, whom it holds captive in the Gaza Strip.
Israel then began strong reprisals against that poor Palestinian enclave, controlled by Hamas since 2007, with cuts in the supply of food, water, electricity and fuel and daily bombings, followed by a ground offensive that completed the siege of Gaza City on Thursday. .
On October 27, Israel began a ground incursion. which has already advanced to Gaza City, the main city of the Gaza Strip.
Source: TSF
