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The destruction of Gaza's internet is complete

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Re: The destruction of Gaza's internet is complete

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Post by fortran77 »

bluish29 wrote: post #11
bawolff wrote: post #9

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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Re: The destruction of Gaza's internet is complete

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Post by bhouston »

lordofgibbons wrote: post #6

Hopefully 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.

After the horrendous Hamas attacks of October 7 a portion of the Israeli public sort of lost it and have outright called for retribution. I worry that this indiscriminate bombing campaign combined with a near complete blockade of food, electricity, water of the last two weeks is reflective of that. Now with a lack of communication, I worry about Palestinians. You can never be sure what will happen, but the ingredients for something really bad are all here.

Re: The destruction of Gaza's internet is complete

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Post by nharada »

stavros wrote: post #20
uoaei wrote: post #12

Watching 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.

> everything was just peachy

???

Re: The destruction of Gaza's internet is complete

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Post by shihab »

victorbjorklund wrote: post #17
bluish29 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cutting communication with outside world is a standard step in genocide and committing war crimes too.

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Just so everyone understands the scale - Russia killed 550 Ukrainian children in 2.5 yrs of war.

In less than 3 weeks, Israel has killed 3000. [1]

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/un-official-warns-hell-is-....

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Re: The destruction of Gaza's internet is complete

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Post by temp20231027 »

petertodd wrote: post #10

> 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…

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