2023-10-27 22:11:00
Internet connection cut off. Contact with people in the Gaza Strip is completely lost
October 28, 2023, 12:11 a.m. Listen to article
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The Israeli military is stepping up its attacks with rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip. As a result, all communications and internet services collapsed. WHO and Unicef are very concerned about the safety of people on site – including their own employees.
According to the Palestinian Telecommunications Company, all communications and internet services are currently down in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian telecommunications company Paltel said the heavy bombing by the Israeli army was to blame.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is no longer in contact with staff, health facilities and other partners in the Gaza Strip. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote this on the platform X, formerly Twitter. Because of the “siege” he is very concerned about their safety and the immediate health risk of vulnerable patients. “We urge immediate protection.” In a second tweet he added only the word: “Why?” added.
According to its own statements, the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) no longer has any contact with its colleagues in Gaza. Executive Director Catherine Russell wrote on The Palestinian Red Crescent also wrote on X that they had lost contact with all operations centers and teams in the Gaza Strip.
Scottish Prime Minister Humza Yousaf says he has also lost contact with his relatives in the Gaza Strip. “Gaza is being heavily bombed. Telecommunications are cut off. We cannot reach our family, who have been stuck in this war zone for almost three weeks,” Yousaf wrote on X. “We can only pray that they survive the night. How many children have to still die until the world says ‘enough’?” Yousaf’s mother-in-law and her husband had traveled to the Gaza Strip to visit relatives before the Islamist Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. They’ve been stuck there ever since. Yousaf called for a ceasefire in order to establish a humanitarian corridor for the people of Gaza.
The organization Netblocks, which is known for monitoring Internet blocks, also confirmed on X that Internet connections in the Gaza Strip had collapsed. This has a major impact on Paltel. The company is the last major operator still offering services in the coastal area.
Israel’s army has announced that it will expand its ground operations in the Gaza Strip against the Islamist Hamas. It was said that the military had already increased its attacks in the Gaza Strip in the last few hours. More than two million people live in the sealed-off coastal strip, around half of them children.
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