Members of the Islamist movement Hamastogether with telephone companies that operate in the Gaza Strip and the address of the Palestine Red Crescent (the Islamic entity of the Red Cross), denounced today that Israel “cut off communications and most of the internet” palestinian enclave.
Palestine Red Crescent authorities also denounced that the cut made by the Israeli Army and the Netblocks observatory recorded “a collapse of connectivityafter a reported heavy bombardment”.
The Al Jazeera network site, the Qatari channel that is covering the conflict daily, noted that the Palestinian telecommunications company Jawwal clarified in a publication on social networks that mobile phone and Internet services had been cut.
“We don’t have internet or no signal on our phones; “We are totally isolated in the territory,” declared Tareq Abu Azzoum from Khan Yunis. He added that the locals were “terrified.”
The outage is occurring as Palestinians they are getting ready for the possibility of an early Israeli ground invasion of Gaza.
Gaza, cut off: what the Israeli authorities say
Israeli officials stated several times that They prepare for a ground raid in order to overthrow Hamas, the Palestinian armed group that governs the territory and that on Saturday the 7th of this month carried out a surprise attack that left more than 1,400 dead and took some 200 hostages.
Since then, the Israel Defense Forces bomb the Strip and they have only allowed, for a couple of days, the entry of humanitarian aid.
Israeli attacks So far they have left more than 7,300 dead.“among them more than 3,000 children,” according to the Health of Loop.
Source: Ambito
