Palestinian authorities report telecoms down in Gaza Strip
Telecommunication services in the war-torn Gaza Strip were disrupted on Thursday, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
Citing the Palestinian telecommunications authority, WAFA said the last remaining fibre-optic network was damaged in an attack, resulting in a complete disruption of internet and landline services.
Telecommunications in Gaza have repeatedly been disrupted since the start of the war almost two years ago.
The telecommunications authority pointed to the "humanitarian and social consequences of the outage" and called for provision to be restored rapidly.
The war was triggered by the attack on Israel by Hamas and other Islamist militants on October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 were abducted to the Gaza Strip.
According to the health authority controlled by Hamas, more than 55,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been killed as a result of the war so far.
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