Starlink will only operate in the Gaza Strip with the approval of Israel

The Oslo accord gives Israel right to control the airspace, but also gives the pale stone the right to operate an airport. So the accord does not give Israel sovereignty over the land.

Israel denies that they are occupying the strip, so it’s hard to say that even Israel is claiming it as legally theirs.

Not even Israel claims it is legally part of Israel.

Not the government. Not the courts.

The Israeli government has, until the "disengagement", insisted in court regularly that Gaza was under belligerent occupation.

This was an important stance for them as claiming it as Israeli territory would give petitioners reasons to ask courts to apply Israeli civilian law. Israeli courts have accepted this stance many times over the years.

By claiming this, any annexation would be a war crime (but to be clear, Israel has never claimed to annex Gaza, on the contrary, Israel has claimed it has ended the occupation and given up control - a claim that is not uncontroversial given the level of control it still exerts)

[EDIT: And, unironically expect this deal and Karhi's statements to feature in future lawsuits as evidence that Gaza is still under belligerent occupation; this will matter greatly, especially now, as an occupying power has humanitarian legal responsibilities that can be challenged in Israeli courts if Israeli courts were to agree there is evidence Israel is still an occupying power]

So under which authority is Gaza legally part of Israel?

This whole article should be pulled. It's (possibly intentionally) just inventing lies on key issues.

"However, he admitted that he turned off internet access from his Starlink satellites during a Ukrainian raid last year on a Russian naval fleet."

This is horseshit. The geoblocks those the boats just careened in to were in place for a long time before, and limited to not allow access in Russia due to US sanctions! What Elon was asked to do, was to break the regulations his company is working beneath to create a major new offensive, against the then-current mindset of how US supplied Ukraine in long-term capabilities. Elon said explicitly that if it actually came through the proper channels, and not some random Ukrainian source, he would absolutely have made an exception and opened up those then-closed areas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKqJ5-kkUGk&t=433s

Okay, so why doesn't it?

Just no. There's no reason to believe the situation isn't how it's stated. It's been written about how the Starlink geoblocks are quite notably _on_ the frontlines on ground, sometimes even to the ire of Ukranian operations when they move deeper. Logically it is not just to avoid Russians using it, but also because the Starlink service actually was never given to Ukraine to be used as an offensive weapon, which they continuously of course violated even while being donated terminals & service out of Elon's good will before DoD moved a muscle to help fund them.

There's 0% chance for a location in as deep as Crimea that it wouldn't have been blocked at the time. Why keep pushing a wholly inverted view as if the blocks were somehow TURNED ON just as the Ukranian attack ships were moving in? The only thing one can reasonably think of being behind that skew is the persistent misinformation war against Musk as it not just goes against his word but common logic.