UNRWA: We lost contact with our colleagues in Gaza due to communication outage
Geneva – Saba:
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has announced that it has lost contact with its colleagues in the Gaza Strip due to the communication outage caused by the Israeli army's targeting.
This came in a post by UNRWA on X platform on Thursday, following the announcement by the Palestinian Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) that all internet and landlines communications services in the Gaza Strip had been cut off after the Israeli enemy targeted infrastructure.
The UN agency said: "Contact with our UNRWA colleagues in Gaza has been lost."
It continued: "This morning, for the first time in months, we have not received our colleagues' morning messages saying 'Good morning, we are fine/alive.'"
UNRWA concluded by saying: "We are eagerly awaiting news of our colleagues."
The Palestinian Telecommunications Regulatory Authority announced this morning, Thursday, a complete outage of internet and landlines communications services in the Gaza Strip after the last main fiber route was targeted.
The Authority said in a statement that the Israeli enemy is escalating digital isolation as a result of systematic targeting of infrastructure, despite repeated attempts to repair severed and alternative routes.
It noted that the southern and central Gaza Strip are joining the isolation suffered by the northern Gaza Strip for the second consecutive day.
The authority warned that the continued outage threatens to completely cut off the Gaza Strip from the world and impacts relief, health, media, and educational services.
It explained that the Israeli enemy has been preventing technical crews from reaching fault sites or repairing cables and alternative routes for months.
With American and European support, the Israeli enemy army has continued to commit crimes of genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, resulting in the deaths of 55,207 Palestinian citizens, the majority of whom are children and women, and the injury of 127,821 others. This is a preliminary toll, with thousands of victims still under the rubble and on the roads, unable to be reached by ambulance and rescue crews.
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