{"id":421561,"date":"2023-10-28T09:03:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T06:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=421561"},"modified":"2023-10-28T09:03:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T06:03:21","slug":"israel-steps-up-air-and-ground-attacks-in-gaza-cuts-off-the-occupied-territorys-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/israel-steps-up-air-and-ground-attacks-in-gaza-cuts-off-the-occupied-territorys-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel steps up air and ground attacks in Gaza, cuts off the occupied territory\u2019s communications"},"content":{"rendered":"

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (SONNA) \u2014 Israel knocked out internet and communications in the Gaza Strip in stepped-up bombardment Friday night, largely cutting off its 2.3 million people from contact with each other and the outside world and creating a near-blackout of information, as the military said it was \u201cexpanding\u201d ground operations in the territory.<\/p>\n

The military\u2019s announcement signaled it was moving closer to an all-out invasion of Gaza, where it has vowed to crush the ruling Hamas militant group after its\u00a0bloody incursion<\/span>\u00a0in southern Israel three weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Explosions from continuous airstrikes lit up the sky over Gaza City for hours after nightfall. The Palestinian telecom provider, Paltel, said the bombardment caused \u201ccomplete disruption\u201d of internet, cellular and landline services. The cutoff meant that casualties from strikes and details of ground incursions could not immediately be known. Some satellite phones continued to function.<\/p>\n

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Already plunged into darkness after most electricity was cut off weeks ago, Palestinians were thrown into isolation, huddling in homes and shelters with food and water supplies running out.<\/p>\n

Relatives outside Gaza panicked after their messaging chats with families inside suddenly went dead and calls stopped going through.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was so scared this was going to happen,\u201d said Wafaa Abdul Rahman, director of a feminist organization based in the West Bank city of Ramallah. She said she hadn\u2019t heard for hours from family in central Gaza.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been seeing these horrible things and massacres when it\u2019s live on TV, so now what will happen when there\u2019s a total blackout?\u201d she said, referring to scenes of families that have been crushed in homes by airstrikes over the past weeks.<\/p>\n

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Source: AP<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (SONNA) \u2014 Israel knocked out internet and communications in the Gaza Strip in stepped-up bombardment Friday night, largely cutting off its 2.3 million people from contact with each other and the outside world and creating a near-blackout of information, as the military said it was \u201cexpanding\u201d ground operations in the territory. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":421562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-421561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421563,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421561\/revisions\/421563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}