GAZA, (The Palestinian Information Center) Palestinian Telecommunications Company announced Wednesday that internet and landline services have been cut off in Gaza and North Gaza governorates, citing damage to several main supply routes caused by Israel’s ongoing genocidal war.
In a statement, the company said its crews are working around the clock to repair the damage, but conditions on the ground remain extremely dangerous.
Earlier, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor warned of an imminent total collapse of Gaza’s communication and internet networks due to the deliberate and repeated targeting of residential towers and high-rise buildings by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF). The group said these attacks are part of a broader campaign aimed at “urban erasure,” which has intensified since August 11.
According to Euro-Med, Israel’s objectives include terrifying civilians into forced displacement toward the south, destroying urban infrastructure to prevent future return, and dismantling what remains of critical communications networks, further isolating Gaza’s residents, cutting them off from documenting crimes, or seeking help.
In addition to strikes on rooftop transmission stations, the report warned that Gaza’s telecom system faces collapse as fuel shortages threaten to shut down operating stations. The watchdog described this as a systematic policy combining bombardment and blockade to sever Gaza’s lifelines, isolate its population from the outside world, erase evidence of mass crimes, and facilitate forced displacement.
The group stressed that communications blackouts severely obstruct the work of medical and relief teams, preventing them from reaching victims, many of whom are left to bleed to death without rescue. It also leaves people trapped under rubble unable to call for help, disrupts ambulance coordination, and halts urgent humanitarian responses. “The blackout,” the report said, “becomes a weapon of indirect killing no less deadly than direct strikes.”
