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For 34 hours, the more than two million Palestinians in Gaza had no way to reach the outside world or each other as phone and internet service was severed. This left them unable to know the fate of their loved ones or call for help during the Israeli bombing and ground operation. Rescue crews had limited tools to find people in need, relying on driving towards the smoke from Israeli airstrikes. Internet access in Gaza has since been partially restored.
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Internet connectivity in Gaza tumbled as Israel’s ground assault began. For nearly two days almost everyone there lost touch with the outside world and found it much harder to contact each other https://t.co/IMS7rLpQJe 👇
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As Israel intensified its bombing and expanded its ground operation in Gaza, the area's electricity and almost all communication services were cut off. Families had no way of knowing if loved ones were alive, and first responders could not be called. https://t.co/EVAHlBHWDK
“People were bombed, dying and injured while nobody knew anything about them.” With no phone and internet service in Gaza from Friday to Sunday, rescue crews had few tools to find people in need other than driving toward the smoke from Israeli airstrikes.https://t.co/ZFntGxiptT
As Israeli forces entered Gaza on Friday to fight Hamas, phone and internet service was severed for 34 hours. Most people in Gaza had no way to reach the outside world — or one another. “It was like we were dying alone,” a Gaza City resident said. https://t.co/8OXIrEJnGd
For 34 hours, the vast majority of the more than two million Palestinians who live in Gaza had no way to reach the outside world, or one another. They had no way to know whether their loves ones were alive or dead. Emergency phone lines stopped ringing. Desperate paramedics tried… https://t.co/Zd2yEanQyq https://t.co/baZFNBevQh