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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
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, according to recent data by Palestinian authorities. Digital rights organization Access Now, which regularly campaigns against internet shutdowns across the globe, wrote in a press release 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. Hisham Mhanna, a spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross, told The Times that “when you try to plan for any mission during a blackout, you cannot predict the surprises or challenges that the team may face on their way — it’s hard to report back to our headquarters.”
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