Based on what Netanyahu posted this morning, they are likely planning on destroying the biggest hospital in Gaza and killing everyone there and in the surrounding area.
So, hundreds of deaths. And they want to prevent it from being recorded and shown to the rest of the world.
Why would you need to do this if your cause and actions are just? What are they trying to hide? I hope more people see this and understand Israel is morally bankrupt.
It is normal to disrupt and jam all communication ahead of an invasion.
IEDs, tactical comms etc.
Makes it harder for news to spread, documenting warcrimes and genocide, etc
Can nobody here think like a military just for one second and understand that they don’t care about spread of information? That information will be leaked after the blackouts are over, nothing can change that. That blackout is purely so that Hamas would lose their communication capabilities. It’s a classic proven war tactic and a totally legit one.
You need to do this if your plan is to exterminate the Palestinians and move onto their land for your own purposes.
Not to sound like an invasion apologist, but I’d imagine they want to limit the ability for IEDs to be remotely detonated.
Israel could have broken the back of Hamas by simply helping the Palestinian people develop a bit of infrastructure and economy. If the Palestinians have something worth losing, Hamas has no power. Hamas is as powerful as it is because of Israels policies over the last 20 years.
And Hamas could have built Gazans an OK place to live in if they used the literally billions of dollars of foreign money for investments instead of for weapons and tunnels. Didn’t happen either.
With what economy?
Israel is a first world nation with a high performance technocratic economy. What does Palestine have to work with?
We’re again talking about what should have been done, and my point is that it’s a pointless exercise, but if you really can’t see any ways to build a functioning economy with literally billions of free money, then let’s continue the exercise: about half of Palestinians used to have permits to work in Israel before Hamas fucked them over by attacking Israel. In the recent years the number of Israeli work permits has been increasing again, unfortunately Hamas decided to fuck them over again. So even if they had a small economy of their own, there was a way to work and bring money to then spend in Gaza.
But I find it really hard to believe you couldn’t imagine a dozen things more useful for Gazans than things to wage war against Israel that ultimately only ever made their situation worse.
Another episode of “what should have been done” is that while with humanitarian aid it’s not really possible, we never should have sent Gaza any development money without any conditions based on outcomes of their usage. But as with the above, what’s done is done.
Ok, well, right now, Israel is a first world nation with a high performance technocratic economy and Palestine is rubble being ground into dust. Israel has the privilege to do better.
Ya’ll can’t think for a second from a military perspective.
No. This is not about hiding what they do - things will leak either way after the blackout is over - you can’t erase data from people’s devices.
This is a 100% legitimate war tactic of breaking your enemie’s communication, making them less prepared for combat and catching them by suprise.
If ya’ll are pro palestinian then you’re also anti-Hamas, and that’s a 100% anti-Hamas move. That’s a good sign of Hamas about to take a massive hit.
