2023-10-28 04:15:40
The first sign that Israel had begun the second stage of its attacks on the Gaza Strip occurred this Friday at 10 in the morning (five in the afternoon in Gaza). Out of nowhere, communications were interrupted and only the echo of the caller could be heard on cell phone calls.
Patel, the Palestinian company in charge of telecommunications in this territory, confirmed what would precede the intense Israeli bombing that the Palestinians experienced again in the early hours of this Saturday (Gaza time).
“Patel Group regrets to announce that telecommunications services, including landlines, mobile phones and internet, have been lost in the Gaza Strip. This was due to the continued heavy bombing which resulted in the cutting of all remaining fiber routes connecting Gaza to the rest of the world. Gaza is currently blocked,” the company said in a statement.
This excessive response by Israel, after the Islamist group Hamas murdered 1,400 people and kidnapped another 200 in Israeli territory on October 7, has led to the total isolation of Gaza after cutting off their energy and water supplies and blocking the entry of humanitarian aid. A situation that has worsened due to the continuous bombings of schools, churches, and hospitals, in a clear violation of International Humanitarian Law and International Law.
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Even the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Autonomous Government, Mohammad Shtayyeh, accused Israel in an interview on CNN of cutting off communications and the internet in Gaza in an “attempt to create darkness in order to commit crimes,” this in preparation for the second phase in the that Israeli military will carry out ground assaults in the Gaza Strip.
Bombs fall near hospital
Information known to EL COLOMBIANO reports that the latest bombings have fallen near the Indonesian and Al Shifa hospitals, where there are more than 50,000 refugees.
These bombings obey the order given by the Israeli government to eliminate Hamas enclaves, which pointed out that this hospital is a Hamas enclave and that it has underground spaces where militants from the Islamic group are sheltered.
Given these accusations, the doctors showed the plans of the hospital center and invited the international community to visit the hospital and verify that there is no presence of Hamas. In addition, they expressed that there is no supply of medicines or supplies to care for the thousands of victims who arrive daily, as doctor Imad Mohamed told this newspaper, who reported that the surgeries are performed under candlelight or with cell phone flashlights.
“We don’t have supplies, we don’t even have anesthesia to operate on the children who arrive with wounds left by the bombings. Some arrive without hands or without any limbs, and they have to be operated on like this,” Mohamed said.
The situation is so serious that emergency services no longer receive calls and medical personnel try to listen to where the bombings are taking place to send ambulances to that area, with the risk of being attacked by planes flying over the Gaza Strip. . They say from Gaza that people carry their injured relatives to the nearest hospital.
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