For 34 hours, the majority of Palestinians in Gaza were cut off from the outside world and each other due to a communication blackout. The United States believes Israel is responsible for the loss of phone and internet service. Palestinians in Gaza describe living in a nightmare since the border incident with Hamas.
For 34 hours, the vast majority of the more than 2 million Palestinians who live in Gaza had no way to reach the outside world, or one another.
Palestinians inspecting damage to their homes after an Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.On Sunday, the Israeli military said it had expanded a ground incursion overnight, and warned with increasing “urgency” that Palestinian civilians should move to the southern part of the coastal strip — although airstrikes have continued to kill people there, too.
Connectivity restarted spontaneously around 4am Sunday, said Abdulmajeed Melhem, chief executive of Paltel Group, the main Palestinian telecommunications company. The company had made no repairs and had no understanding of how or why service had partly returned, he said. He added that he believed that the Israeli government was responsible for the cut and the restoration — although service remains limited after an Israeli airstrike on a telecommunication tower early in the war.
More than 8000 people have been killed in Gaza since the war began, including more than 3000 children, said Ashraf al-Qidra, a spokesperson for the Gaza health ministry.After communications returned, ambulance and civil defence crews found hundreds of dead and wounded people lying on the ground or trapped under rubble, al-Qidra said in a news conference Sunday.
Helmi Mousa was among the few residents to have an internet connection Saturday morning amid the widespread blackout. It did not ease his anxiety, though, because he was unable to reach relatives with Palestinian SIM cards who live just miles away.
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