8 Hari Padam, Telecommunications Service In Gaza Finally Recovered

Gaza (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Communication service providers in the Gaza Strip, the Paltel Group announced that its technical team has been working over the past few days to repair damage to the internal network infrastructure induced by continued aggression in the Gaza Strip".

Telecommunications and internet services in Gaza gradually began to recover on Friday, January 9 after experiencing a complete eight-day blackout in the trapped enclave.

The company said two of its staff were killed by Israeli artillery fire on Saturday while trying to repair a telecommunications network, bringing the number of staff killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza to 14 people.

Communications and internet services were disrupted on January 12 in most of the Gaza Strip, marking the ninth outage since October 7, 2023.

Paltel is a telecommunications company in Palestine that provides the largest cellular and internet communications service in the Gaza Strip and an exclusive provider of fixed telephone services.

Ooredoo, another telecommunications operator, stated on Friday that its telecommunications services were still disrupted in the central and southern Gaza Strip, while its services in the northern part were functioning.

Israel has launched non-stop air and landstrikes in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for cross-border attacks by Hamas, which it claims killed 1,200 people in Israel.

At least 24,762 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and 62,108 injured, according to Palestinian health authorities.

Israeli attacks have left 85 percent of Gaza's population displaced amid food, clean water and medicine crises, while 60 percent of infrastructure in the enclave is damaged or destroyed, according to the United Nations.