The longest blackout in Gaza: a week without internet or other telecommunications

On Friday, the Gaza Strip completed seven consecutive days without internet and other telecommunications services, and although it is the seventh time that this type of blackout has occurred, this is the longest, according to the United Nations daily report on the conflict.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
19 January 2024 Friday 15:24
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The longest blackout in Gaza: a week without internet or other telecommunications

On Friday, the Gaza Strip completed seven consecutive days without internet and other telecommunications services, and although it is the seventh time that this type of blackout has occurred, this is the longest, according to the United Nations daily report on the conflict. between Hamas and Israel. The UN warns that the telecommunications outage makes it difficult to distribute humanitarian aid, first aid and even daily monitoring of the situation in the strip, the UN said.

For their part, agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO) regret, for example, the difficulty at present in monitoring the cases of hepatitis A that have been detected in Gaza, as there are no laboratories in operation and very few ability to perform tests.

Likewise, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs continues to regret the frequent cancellation of aid missions to northern Gaza, especially since the beginning of the year, since in January they had to be suspended due to lack of permits from the Israeli authorities 22 of the 29 planned, 76% of the total.

In the last 24 hours, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, 142 Palestinians in Gaza have died in Israeli attacks and 278 have been injured, so the death toll since October 7 is already close to 25,000, while the injured people exceed 60,000.