Gaza is under a weeklong sustained telecoms outage, the longest since the onset of the war with Israel. A weeklong telecommunications blackout in the Gaza Strip has become a “matter of life and death” and should end immediately, digital civil rights group Access Now says during the longest continuous outage since Israel’s war began. “Internet shutdowns must not be used as weapons of war. Since the beginning of the war on October 7, internet traffic in the Gaza Strip has undergone multiple blackouts and shutdowns. The blackouts have occurred as Israel has carried out a devastating bombardment of Gaza, killing at least 24,620 people and wounding 61,830, according to Palestinian authorities.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 18, 2024 17:15 UTC