Dirupting enemy communications is a pretty standard goal of any army in a war. I'm more surprised it took this long.
Cutting communication with outside world is a standard step in genocide and committing war crimes too.
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#12Watching mainstream news as well as tier-2 and -3 outlets perfect the passive voice has been validating for recognizing how status quo services specific political and ideological alignments despite assumptions of an ideal impartiality.
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#13Starlink still working?
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#14At this point, I think Gaza is pretty much doomed. There won’t be much left at the end of this special military operation.
There will be 25 miles of beautiful Mediterranean coastline for Israeli settlers.
At least, that certainly has to have crossed the mind of someone in power.
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#15Hopefully news crews brought their satellite broadcasting equipment. It's important for the world not be blocked off from seeing what's going on regardless of which side you support.
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#16> Taking Gaza completely off the grid while launching an unprecedented bombardment campaign only means something atrocious is about to happen. A war is happening of course. Communications are critical to military operations, and Hamas has been happy to use civilian infrastructure for military purposes. Of course Israel is going to destroy it all. Sure, Hamas can still use older tech like radios. But that's a huge win…
I've seen some speculation about the intelligence failure in not predicting the attack being related to Hamas avoiding the Internet for planning, and even deliberately sending false info on channels they knew were compromised.
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#18Dirupting enemy communications is a pretty standard goal of any army in a war. I'm more surprised it took this long.
the west had a different opinion on russia doing the same in ukraine
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#19At this point, I think Gaza is pretty much doomed. There won’t be much left at the end of this special military operation.
It's estimated that Hamas has between 30,000 and 40,000 soldiers(1), which is about 6% to 8% of Gaza's entire adult male population. There's no way of getting around it: if Israel finishes the job of eradicating Hamas, a large percentage of the Gazan population will be killed or captured, purely because so many of them are actively involved in Hamas.
Anyway, if Gazan citizens learn the lessons of their mistakes, they still have a future. In Germany about 5 million German soldiers were killed, almost as many as the 6 million Jews they slaughtered. At the time that was a double digit percentage of the entire male population. But Germany rebuilt and is now a thriving country.
1) https://www.axios.com/2023/10/21/palestine-hamas-military-po...
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#20Watching mainstream news as well as tier-2 and -3 outlets perfect the passive voice has been validating for recognizing how status quo services specific political and ideological alignments despite assumptions of an ideal impartiality.
> has been able to keep some of its services online during Israel’s military response to Hamas’s attack.
Looks clear-cut whose fault it is, everything was just peachy for everyone until Hamas just decided to attack out of the blue.