TEL AVIV/GAZA (dpa-AFX) – Telecommunications services in the embattled Gaza Strip have failed again. The West Bank-based Palestinian communications companies Jawwal and Paltel reported this on Tuesday on the X platform, formerly Twitter. The reason is Israel’s “ongoing aggression.” Gaza is once again cut off from the outside world.
Since the beginning of the war, the communication networks in the sealed-off coastal area have failed several times. Connections to the outside world were only possible with satellite cell phones and sometimes from tall buildings in the south of the Gaza Strip with Israeli SIM cards.
The Gaza war was triggered by the worst massacre in Israel’s history, which terrorists from the Islamist Hamas and other extremist groups carried out in Israel on October 7th. Israel responded with massive air strikes and began a ground offensive at the end of October./le/DP/he