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cliffside

(1,336 posts)
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 12:59 AM Thursday

Gaza City's communications cut amid widening Israeli ground invasion

Source: WaPo

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'Palestinian journalists reported continuous fire in Gaza City, where hundreds of thousands remain. The Israeli military is effectively encircling the city. Their access to lifesaving information about the progress of the military operation and safety of roads southward was restricted Wednesday, as many in Gaza City and farther north suffered heavy network disruptions. The Ramallah-based Palestinian Telecommunications Regulatory Authority said the new disruptions to internet and terrestrial services were due to “continued aggression and targeting of major network routes.”

... NetBlocks, which monitors global internet access, attributed the blackout to “the targeting of one of the main fiber optic routes, [which] comes amid a new Israeli ground operation in the region.” The Israeli military did not respond to questions about damage to the area’s telecommunications network.

... Poverty rates in Gaza — where the world’s leading body on food security has confirmed that famine is present — are so high that most people do not have the means to flee.

... “The conditions now in Deir al-Balah are worse than you can imagine,” said Shireen Abu Qammar, a local journalist who was displaced from Gaza City after the Israeli military issued an evacuation order there. “We have been displaced more than once, and the conditions have never been this difficult: Overcrowding without shelter. People are sleeping on the streets. There is not enough space.”




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Gaza City's communications cut amid widening Israeli ground invasion (Original Post) cliffside Thursday OP
Evil deeds done in the dark. AloeVera Friday #1
Exactly many have no means to flee, are sick, starving and they only opened the other road for 48 hours ... cliffside Friday #2

AloeVera

(3,743 posts)
1. Evil deeds done in the dark.
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 09:08 PM
Friday

People have no means to flee...and a main road out has been blocked by the psychos running the IDF.

I see Israel's defenders have disappeared. How odd.



What a world where a genocide was defended and rationalized until it became normalized.

cliffside

(1,336 posts)
2. Exactly many have no means to flee, are sick, starving and they only opened the other road for 48 hours ...
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 10:33 PM
Friday

even if they could, they know there is no room.

At some point, too late for many, being silent is better than continuing to defend this horrible eradication of human beings.



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