Telecommunications were this Sunday partially restored in the Gaza Stripafter They were cut on Thursdaythe Palestinian operator Paltel announced this Sunday.
In a statement, the company reported the “progressive reestablishment” of the network, in the center and south of the territory, which since October 7 has been the target of an intense Israeli military campaign launched in response to the massacres committed on the same day by the Islamist group Hamas in southern Israel.
On Thursday, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Hamas, which has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007, I had noticed a “blackout”the fifth since the start of the Israeli ground offensive on October 27, which involved “the complete interruption of all Paltel and Ooredoo communications and Internet services in the central and southern Gaza Stripdue to ongoing israeli aggression”.
The Palestinian operator Paltel also confirmed then the interruption of telecommunications.
“We regret to announce that All telecommunications services in the Gaza Strip were interrupted. as a result of the ongoing aggression and Gaza once again being left without a network,” the company said.
Telecommunications failures isolate Gaza from contact with the outside world, but internal communications are also disrupted, meaning Gazans cannot call or communicate with each other, making it difficult for civilians to communicate. Contact health services, emergencies or ambulances.
The war in the Gaza Strip was triggered by an unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people on October 7.
In retaliation, Israel vowed to annihilate Hamas and launched an air and ground offensive that caused a high level of infrastructure destruction in the Gaza Strip, a small territory with 2.3 million inhabitants.
The Israeli offensive killed 18,680 people in the Gaza Stripaccording to the most recent figures published by Hamas.
Source: TSF
