The telephone and internet connection is gradually recovering in the Gaza Strip after eight days of almost total blackout, the Palestinian telecommunications company announced Paltelon the 106th day of war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
“We announce the gradual return of communications services in several areas of the Gaza Stripwhile our technical teams have worked over the past few days to repair many of the major failures caused by the ongoing aggression.” from Israel, the company said this Saturday on the social network X.
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According to him, his teams “were able to restore basic services as they were before the recent interruption.”
He also reported that two members of his technical staff died while they were repairing the breakdowns at “having been attacked by a direct missile”which brings the number of employees of Paltel who have died since the beginning of the Israeli military offensive.
The Strip, while the bombings of the Israeli army and combats with militiamen, he was almost without telephone services and internet connection for more than a week, the cutting of longest duration of the seven that has suffered since the outbreak of war on October 7.
This situation isolates the Stripe both internally and abroad, which makes the tasks of health and emergency teams, and also the distribution of humanitarian aid, difficult.
The Israeli attacks since yesterday in Loop have caused the death of some 165 Palestinians and about 280 injured, reported the Ministry of Health of the Strip, controlled by Hamas, while the deaths in the enclave since the outbreak of the war is close to 25,000.
There are also thousands more missing among the streets and rubble of destroyed buildings, so Health estimates that the death toll could be much higher.
