Almost two months after the start of the war in Gaza, telecommunications services in the north of the Gaza Strip and in Gaza City have failed again, according to Palestinian reports. “We regret to announce a complete interruption of communication services (landline, cell phone and internet) in Gaza City and the north of the Gaza Strip,” the Palestinian company Paltel, based in the West Bank, wrote on Facebook today.
The reason for the failure was damage to core network elements caused by the ongoing attacks, it was said. The information could not initially be independently verified.
After a massacre perpetrated by Hamas Islamic terrorists in southern Israel that left more than 1,200 people dead, Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip from the air. In late October, the army also launched a ground offensive. According to Hamas, 15,899 people have been killed so far. The figures cannot currently be independently verified, but are generally seen by the United Nations and diplomats as credible.
Since the Gaza war began on October 7, communications networks in the isolated coastal area have failed several times. Connections with the outside world were only possible via satellite cell phones and sometimes high-rise buildings in the southern Gaza Strip with Israeli SIM cards.