2024-07-26 01:53:17
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said his Starlink satellite internet service had been activated at a hospital in the Gaza Strip with support from the United Arab Emirates and Israel.
UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan thanked the billionaire entrepreneur for supporting the UAE’s field hospital in Gaza, where many medical facilities have been destroyed and there is a shortage of medicines.
“Starlink now operational in Gaza hospital with support from @UAEmediaoffice and @Israel,” Musk wrote on X’s website.
The announcement comes more than five months after the Israeli government gave permission for Starlink to be used in a hospital in Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip.
On Tuesday, local residents reported that Israeli troops blew up several houses in Rafah, near the Egyptian border, where Israel says it is carrying out an operation to destroy the last Hamas battalions.
Back in February, the UAE’s Foreign Ministry said high-speed internet would allow potentially life-saving medical consultations to be conducted via video link in real time.
The UAE, a major oil producer and regional financial and tourism hub, signed a normalization deal with Israel in 2020 along with Bahrain and Morocco. Sudan later reached a normalization deal with Israel.
The pacts were designed to bring stability and prosperity to the troubled Middle East.
Earlier, Cursor wrote that Elon Musk’s Cybertruck encountered a problem in Israel.