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A connectivity blackout means people cannot contact friends, family or even ambulances to help the injured.

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[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Technical question: how did Israel cut Gaza off from cell networks? Is there some kind of jamming technology, did they literally destroy/disable all cell towers serving Gaza, or did they get Verizon or whoever to stop providing service? Or something else?

[-] Silverseren@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

They blew up the telecommunications company building that was the main circuit board for all phone and internet signals. They also focused on destroying as much of the physical infrastructure, such as cell towers, as they could.

This had minimal impact on anything Hamas was doing, since they have physical landline cables down in their tunnel systems.

So the targeted destruction was aimed to harm the civilian population and their ability to communicate, not Hamas.

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