Gaza 'disconnected from the planet' - but messages of fear trickle out
Gaza 'disconnected from the planet' - but messages of fear trickle out
A connectivity blackout means people cannot contact friends, family or even ambulances to help the injured.
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Are there internet-like protocols where you can daisy chain transmission of text and pictures from device to device over WiFi or Bluetooth? Seems like we see these situations pop up fairly frequently and there would be some value in being able to spread communications that way without an ISP.
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Yes, there are a bunch of p2p mesh network apps. I don't know of any that have widespread adoption. I think Google and Apple should consider building a "disaster mode" into Android and iOS so that you are guaranteed to have it before you even need it.
Of course, governments won't like that, because it means that people will be able to continue communicating despite blackouts.
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Briar can do this. One of the coolest things about it is that you can also share the app directly once you have it downloaded, so you only need one person to have it beforehand.
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Nice, downloaded
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@TheButtonJustSpins cool, getting it now!
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Hopefully so. Most of what we've been able to see in the past 24 hours has been from people with satellite phones, which is a slow process.
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Yeah it's definitely emerging that we need some sort of backup system for communicating with each other when regimes pull the plug.
I wish we could have a starlink-esque system that's federated. But as @Silverseren says, that could be slow...
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What a great idea. Market it to the prepped/collapse community— profit.
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Yeah that'll be nice to setup with the technically challenged during missile strikes
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@mojo I guess we need to set it all up in advance.
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Technical question: how did Israel cut Gaza off from cell networks? Is there some kind of jamming technology, did they literally destroy/disable all cell towers serving Gaza, or did they get Verizon or whoever to stop providing service? Or something else?
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They blew up the telecommunications company building that was the main circuit board for all phone and internet signals. They also focused on destroying as much of the physical infrastructure, such as cell towers, as they could.
This had minimal impact on anything Hamas was doing, since they have physical landline cables down in their tunnel systems.
So the targeted destruction was aimed to harm the civilian population and their ability to communicate, not Hamas.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
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The WhatsApp voice note, sent from the city of Deir al-Balah, provides one of few insights available into what is happening in Gaza - and how civilians are coping since Israel intensified air strikes and expanded its ground operations on Friday night.
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In the last communication we had with a professor in Gaza on Friday, he told us he was too scared to follow Israeli evacuation orders and move south, in case his family were caught in a strike on the journey.
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But a small number of people in Gaza have foreign SIM cards that can pick up Israeli or Egyptian masts - and the BBC has been able to establish limited contact with several of them.
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"We didn't expect that we would see morning," he said, adding that heavy bombing had hit "streets, governmental buildings, open fields, the beach".
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In a separate video posted on Instagram, a badly wounded man is rushed out of a building as crowds shout desperately for an ambulance.
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"Ambulances and civil defence teams are no longer able to locate the injured, or the thousands of people estimated to be still under the rubble," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said.
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And yet they keep firing missiles at Israel.
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Not the same people.
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Since their people have been fighting tooth and nail for 2 millennia, I’m curious why this is in the news lately… Is Ukraine getting boring? Sorry if I don’t sound sympathetic, but I don’t like holy wars.
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You don't think new wars or escalations of them should be in the news because Ukraine is still in a war?
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It’s not new, and it doesn’t really seem like much of an escalation. Are the number of people dead on either side more than last year of this millennia-long holy war for the mythical holy land?
I’m not saying we should pretend there isn’t anything else going on, but this is just the same shit day after day with them. It’s not news.
I mean, it’s news because the weapon manufacturers are salivating.
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So colonialism and imperialism are just "holy wars" to you?
Not to mention the fact that this particular conflict isn't two thousand years old, it's just 76 years old. Some Palestinians are still alive who remember the Nakhba.
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Yeah I keep forgetting Jerusalem has been pretty peaceful /s
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Israel is carrying out Nazi style retribution on a civilian population and the West is endorsing it. It's cut off communication to mask war crimes.
The mask has really come off the white supremacist nature of Zionism and the West's complicity in racist, colonial brutality.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mazzig-mizrahi-jews-israel-20190520-story.html