• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      I agree and I’m sure that’s what this is about, but honestly, if you haven’t seen enough yet to realize Israel is massacring innocent people, even live video won’t convince you.

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      Didn’t Israel say that they were posting areas that Gazans should be evacuating on Xitter and?Facebook, and that it was up to the Gazans to keep checking those sites and evacuate when needed, and that Israel couldn’t be responsible for anyone who didn’t follow evacuation orders? And now it turns out that Gazans can’t read the orders anyway (and those that evacuate to Israeli-designated “safe” areas get bombed anyway)?

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        I mean, that’s better than round 1 when they told the civilians where to move to and then bombed that position. At least this way they’re more dispersed…?

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      It’s probably more to do with cutting off communications for Hamas. Photos and videos are going to get out. Whether it’s today, tomorrow, or the next day isn’t going to change public reaction much.

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    Has there been any news about how Israel’s able cut service in Gaza? I assumed at first they were bombing/sabotaging infrastructure but they seem to be able to turn service on and off at will like they’re flipping a switch.

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          It’s fairly easy to do so. They just simply disconnect it from their side. Either that or they use someckind of EMP but that would also affect their own equipment so I doubt that is they way they are doing it.

          And if it’s not obvious Israel will never comrfirm how.

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            I guess? I honestly don’t know. I haven’t really seen reporting saying that either though.

            During the first blackout there was wide speculation that it was bombing, then some shock when Israel just turned service on when the US told them to. Almost nothing since (that I’ve seen), except to report when a blackout is occurring. I’ve been curious about it since then.

            I could be wrong but I suspect that it’d be in some explainer piece if they just had direct access to the infrastructure. I agree that sabotage with something like an EMP would be too imprecise. I’d speculate that they must have some backdoor into those systems.