Phones in the besieged Gaza Strip came back to life after a 36-hour communications blackout, bringing news of the intensified Israeli bombardment and ground operation. The return of communication brought anguish as people learned about the deaths of friends and relatives.
n Sunday morning, phones belonging to the 2.3 million people trapped in the besieged Gaza Strip slowly came to life again, inundated with updates, messages and missed calls after the lifting of a 36-hour near-total communications blackout imposed bynow are completely dark. At the same time as communications were lost on Friday evening, Israel intensified its aerial bombardment and launched its initial ground operation into the strip.
The war in Gaza triggered by the Palestinian militant group Hamas’s massacre across southern Israel, in which 1,400 people were killed and another 230 kidnapped, is now in its fourth week. More than 8,000 people in the tiny strip have died, according to the Palestinian health ministry, and the survivors have no safe place to go.
The family moved two weeks ago from Gaza City to the supposed safety of a home owned by relatives near Khan Younis, in the south of the strip, but airstrikes still rain down around them. For the estimated 1.4 million people who have already been displaced, the new call from the IDF was met with indifference. Southern Gaza is not safe from airstrikes, and many Palestinian media reports say the bombings there have led an unknown number of people to decide to return to their homes in Gaza City.
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