Sunday’s loss of telecoms is Gaza’s third outage since the start of the war and puts Palestinians at risk as emergency services and 911 calls grind to a halt.
. He added that Israel continues “significant” strikes across Gaza in the war against Hamas and troops are expected to enter Gaza City in the next 48 hours.went down after being cut Sunday, according to the Palestinian telecom company Paltel. The Palestinian Authority blames Israel for the communication outages.
“We have lost communication with the vast majority of team members,” UN Palestinian refugee agency spokesperson Juliette ToumaThe first blackout, which occurred a little over a week ago, left Palestinians without communication for 36 hours as Israel launched its ground invasion. The second blackout occurred days later and lasted just a few hours.earlier Sunday and killed 53 people, wounding dozens more as Israel continued its offensive despite U.S.
Airstrikes also hit a house near a school at Bureji refugee camp in central Gaza, which houses around 46,000 people. The strikes at Bureji on Sunday killed at least 13 people. The camp was also hit on Thursday.Middle East leaders over the weekend in ongoing debate as to whether or not to enforce a ceasefire. The two sides were at loggerheads with Blinken arguing that a ceasefire would only allow Hamas to regroup. Despite this, he stressed the importance of protecting the innocent lives being lost every day in Gaza.
“We need to do more to protect Palestinian civilians,” Blinken told reporters. “We’ve been clear that as Israel conducts this campaign to defeat Hamas, how it does so matters.”
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