After spending around 24 hours incommunicado due to telecommunications and internet disruptions in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian authorities said telephone and internet services had been partially restored.
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Palestinian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Ishaq Sidr announced on Saturday that efforts to restore telecommunications in Gaza were underway.
Sidr said in a statement that his ministry had contacted Egypt with the aim of opening Egyptian networks in the Palestinian territory.
Internet connectivity in Gaza has been restored.
I’m currently tweeting via WiFi.— Hind Khoudary (@Hind_Gaza)
October 29, 2023
With communications disrupted in Gaza due to Israeli bombing, the work of journalists and media outlets present in the Palestinian territory had to be suspended in the middle of the worst night of Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
The Commissioner General of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, denounced that the disruption of communications in Gaza is aimed at hindering humanitarian aid in the Palestinian territories.
“The communications blackout is another measure to hinder humanitarian assistance to the civilian population in the Gaza Strip,” the head of UNRWA said in a statement addressed to the organization’s staff in Gaza.
⬇️@UNLazzarini Message our employees in��#Ribbon
I constantly hope that this hell on earth will end soon and that you and your families will be safe.
You are the face of humanity in one of its darkest hours.https://t.co/ZLH3hmtTeH pic.twitter.com/hkrao0wxF4
— UNRWA (@UNRWA)
October 28, 2023
Since Israel began bombing the Palestinian territory, around 7,700 people have died as a result of Israeli incursions.