Why would you need to do this if your cause and actions are just? What are they trying to hide? I hope more people see this and understand Israel is morally bankrupt.
It is normal to disrupt and jam all communication ahead of an invasion.
IEDs, tactical comms etc.
Yep. They are going in.
Makes it harder for news to spread, documenting warcrimes and genocide, etc
I know, but this would happen whether war crimes were intended or not.
Can nobody here think like a military just for one second and understand that they don't care about spread of information? That information will be leaked after the blackouts are over, nothing can change that. That blackout is purely so that Hamas would lose their communication capabilities. It's a classic proven war tactic and a totally legit one.
You need to do this if your plan is to exterminate the Palestinians and move onto their land for your own purposes.
Not to sound like an invasion apologist, but I’d imagine they want to limit the ability for IEDs to be remotely detonated.
Israel could have broken the back of Hamas by simply helping the Palestinian people develop a bit of infrastructure and economy. If the Palestinians have something worth losing, Hamas has no power. Hamas is as powerful as it is because of Israels policies over the last 20 years.
Policies and direct funding
They've openly bragged about funding Hamas in order to keep the Palestinian population divided and prevent any kind of formal government from forming.
Hamas and Likud/Netanyahu need each other to stay in power. Without them, the people in the region may actually move towards peace.
It also theoretically would cease some methods of communication between Hamas members.
Also not taking any sides here, just an explanation as to why communications get shut down during military conflicts.
Yeah, I get people are against the invasion, but if they cannot see legitimate and obvious reasons for restricting options of (human or machine) communications, they're either completely ideologically blinded or stupid.
A simple two way radio would counter that, unless the are jamming all RF.
Hiding genocide.
I'm not supporting Israel or anything but denying your enemy the lines of communication is, like, one of the core tenants of warfare.
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No worries at all. FYI you can also edit posts in lemmy, so you could still remove it.
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Sorry for my ignorance, but what does this AMP do and why is it important to remove it? Is it a referral link or something?
AMP is a project started by Google, Accelerated Mobile Pages, which ostensibly speeds up loading web pages (primarily news websites) by consolidating them to a single set of servers. This was always a lie, however, as the bottleneck with mobile devices is almost always the mobile connection itself, not the back end interconnections between different news websites' servers.
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Based on what Netanyahu posted this morning, they are likely planning on destroying the biggest hospital in Gaza and killing everyone there and in the surrounding area.
So, hundreds of deaths. And they want to prevent it from being recorded and shown to the rest of the world.
I doubt they're dumb enough to think that cutting off most real-time communication would prevent those images from coming out.
Nope, every other county is going to have video from drones, they will however just use it as leverage instead of evidence.
Plus you know, the people being blown up
They're not Americans so it's not important apparently
No oil? No cares.
Just a little theory: they might be waiting for most of the population to die from lack of food, water, and medical equipment, and the rest to join Hamas before the ground invasion. It wouldn't be a great look to go around killing civilians on the ground like they're doing in the West bank, but going around and freeing the area from Hamas terrorists? well, now we are talking.
I don't know what you mean by "most of the population" but a million-plus people dying of dehydration, starvation, or treatable illness isn't a better look than people dying in a ground assault. If anything, it's more cruel. I'm not defending it (using food and water as a weapon against a population is a war crime) but I could make a case that increasing desperation could benefit them. If deaths are even a fraction of that though, their already-shaky international support would collapse.
but a million-plus people dying of dehydration, starvation, or treatable illness isn’t a better look than people dying in a ground assault.
well you can just say: "It's a side effect of war, HAMAS can use those resources too! we cannot allow that to happen", but when your troops are on the ground and can see what they're killing Al-Jazeera becomes a problem.
The same can be applied to airstrikes: "They cannot see what they're hitting"
their already-shaky international support would collapse.
I can assure you that they can kill nearly anyone in the middle east at this point and that won't happen, they can kill an entire population and they will get away with it if they do it over a long enough period of time.
increasing desperation could benefit them.
You might be right, it looks like the invasion is very close.
No, no, no.
All the people dying of dehydration, starvation, or treatable illness because Israel neither lets them out nor lets anywhere near enough humanitarian aid in (only about 5% of what is needed and that didn't last a week before being stopped) are the fault of Hamas because they're being used as Human Shields^(tm?)^
/s
That's a dumb theory
Paltel was the last ISP standing and now it is kaput. Fairly common for Iran to turn off their internet after Friday prayers, but Gaza was caused by shelling.
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