Gaza was plunged into a communications blackout on Sunday for the third time in 10 days, again leaving its people without access to internet or phone services as night fell and Israel’s heavy bombardment of the enclave continued.
Gaza was plunged into a communications blackout on Sunday for the third time in 10 days, again leaving its people without access to internet or phone services as night fell and Israel’s heavy bombardment of the enclave continued.
One of the best wartime strategies is to cut off the enemies methods of communication.
Anyone know if Hamas has radio?
presumably. just with a simple transmitter you can still broadcast 5+ miles, though I’d think their tunnels would have hardwired com lines run
Okay, so they’re just hindering the civilian populace with this, got it.
Journalist. They are actively hindering reporting on the ground so they can control the media. They also killed the family of a head journalist from al jazeera, and also killed reuter’s journalist.
Source for the Reuters, I missed that one.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/reuters-videographer-killed-southern-lebanon-2023-10-13/
This is an old one:
https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-fe452147166f55ba5a9d32e6ba8b53d7
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/16/israeli-forces-killed-abu-akleh-without-justification-un-inquiry-says
Yes. The IDF sends them the location for the next hospital to launch their missiles from, that get promptly shut down by the iron dome. Then they get to claim they’re the good guys and warn the evacuation and turn that hospital to the ground to displace more people.
More likely a temporary measure while they move forces through areas they suspect have IEDs planted. Disabling the mobile networks will prevent them from using cellphones for remote detonation - a common Hamas method of detonating suicide bombers and IEDs.
Chances are once they’ve finished maneuvers they’ll dig in to new positions, mark off IEDs they do find, and restore service.
That’s acually not a bad idea.