Near-total internet blackout hits Gaza as Israel ramps up strikes
Near-total internet blackout hits Gaza as Israel ramps up strikes
The largest telecommunications provider in Gaza that was still largely operational, Paltel, said Friday that it had suffered a complete disruption of all services.
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.
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.
To prevent your enemy from being able to use cameras, whether they be their own or just publicly available, to track and respond to your movements.
Militaries regularly institute media blackouts during operations to prevent embedded journalists from spreading, even accidentally, sensitive information. The US army famously kicked Geraldo Rivera out of Iraq for drawing a crude map in the sand of where the unit he was with was. Unit locations and movements are considered highly sensitive during combat operations.
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what would you say the intended purpose of targeting telecom infrastructure would be?
they're all morally bankrupt
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If you see the word "amp" in the url, please do everyone a favour and delete it. Usually that's all it takes.
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.
In reality the goal is to consolidate web traffic to make it easier for Google to track users. Google also strong armed websites into using it, as if you didn't use it then your articles wouldn't show up in the news ribbon at the top of search or in Google Now voice search. Supposedly they don't do this anymore, however they no doubt still require it in the terms of other services they provide.
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.
Let the genocide commence!
Random shower thought:
When a group of people that have been historicaly subject to genocide, take measures to commits genocide themselves; do they lose their “Victim of Genocide” card?
As in two opposite cancels each others? Or as in two negatives becomes a positive?
(An awful way too put it, but I kind of wondered about that just now)
This implies there's such thing as a victim of genocide card which there isnt.
There are loads of Jews who are against what Israel is doing. The actions of a government don't indicate the views of a whole ethnicity of people. It's like calling all Germans perpetrators of genocide.
When a group of people that have been historicaly subject to genocide, take measures to commits genocide themselves; do they lose their “Victim of Genocide” card?
No. This first part is correct...
a group of people that have been historicaly subject to genocide
...thanks to "western civilization," Jewish people have been subjected to marginalization, demonisation and even genocide. But the second part...
take measures to commits genocide themselves
...is based on a false assumption - that it's Jewish people that are doing this... and that's simply not true. Israel is not a Jewish thing - it's a Zionist thing. Zionism can be Jewish, Christian or even non-religious.
Some of Israel's fiercest critics are Jewish, for instance.
Sooo... the answer is no.
You mean continue, I presume.
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.
IF Israel invades Gaza, it's going to be exactly like the Battle of Fallujah, aka "The Second Battle of Fallujah was the bloodiest battle of the entire conflict for American troops..."
Ya'll can't think for a second from a military perspective.
No. This is not about hiding what they do - things will leak either way after the blackout is over - you can't erase data from people's devices.
This is a 100% legitimate war tactic of breaking your enemie's communication, making them less prepared for combat and catching them by suprise.
If ya'll are pro palestinian then you're also anti-Hamas, and that's a 100% anti-Hamas move. That's a good sign of Hamas about to take a massive hit.
Hamas terrorists operate inside and under Shifa hospital and other hospitals in Gaza with a network of terror tunnels, Shifa is not the only hospital, it is one of many. Hamas use of hospitals is systematic. We have concrete evidence that hundreds of terrorists flooded into the hospital to hide there after the massacres
Nice going Hamas, the dildo of consequences of rarely comes lubed.