Gaza Strip still without telecommunication services

Telecommunications services in the Gaza Strip were down for the third day in a row on Saturday.

The UK-based organization NetBlocks, which monitors internet blackouts, confirmed on the X platform that the outage was continued on Saturday.

The Palestinian communications companies Paltel and Jawwal, based in the West Bank, reported on Thursday that all communications and internet services in the embattled coastal strip had stopped functioning. The reason given was Israel's "ongoing aggression."

Paltel and Jawwal did not provide any information about a possible resumption of their services in the coastal strip.

Since the beginning of the war, the communication networks in the sealed-off coastal area have been cut several times.

Connections to the outside world are only possible with satellite mobile phones and sometimes from high buildings in the southern region of Gaza with Israeli SIM cards.