Web monitors say Gaza week-long internet outage is longest yet
Internet monitoring firms say a near-total internet blackout in Gaza is reaching its seventh day, the longest outage of the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict so far.
Internet monitoring firms say a near-total internet blackout in Gaza is reaching its seventh day, the longest outage of the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict so far.
Doug Madory, the director of internet analysis at Kentik, told TechCrunch in a Signal message that this is the “longest internet blackout ever and longer than all of the previous blackouts combined†in Gaza.
A graphic showing internet connectivity in Gaza. (Image: Kentik) On January 12, Palestinian telecom giant Paltel .
Early on Thursday, on October 7 targeting Israelis in their homes, killing at least 1,200 people. In the months following, Israeli military forces responded with retaliatory air strikes and a ground offensive in Gaza that have killed at least 22,000 people in the territory, that “documenting and sharing information about what is happening on the ground is increasingly challenging, if not outright impossible,†as a result of the outages.
Internet monitoring firms say a near-total internet blackout in Gaza is reaching its seventh day, the longest outage of the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict so far.
Hisham Mhanna, a spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross, that the internet shutdowns have forced journalists to revert to traditional methods of reporting, such as walking between bombed areas, talking to survivors and witnesses to understand casualty numbers, and listening to the radio.
“The news that I used to get in three minutes I now get in an hour or two,†said Sadawi.
Updated with comment from Palestine Red Crescent Society. Corrected the number killed in Hamas’ attack on October 7 to at least 1,200 people, as confirmed by an Israel government spokesperson in November. This was due to an editor’s error. ZW
Based on reporting by techcrunch.com.
