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Rabat – The Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, especially in the north of the enclave, is increasing in intensity as communications in the enclave are cut off.
“Please guys if you can hear us send the message to the world we are isolated now in Gaza. Again guys if you can hear us … we are isolated in the territory. We don’t have any phone signals. We don’t have any internet connections…We just only hear bombardment. We don’t have any kind of access to communication to anyone. Everyone now is really terrified and afraid,” Al Jazeera’s Gaza correspondent reported earlier today.
The Palestine Red Crescent, which provides emergency medical services in the distressed Palestinian territories, said in a statement Friday that they “completely lost contact with the operations room” in the Gaza Strip “due to the Israeli authorities cutting off all landline, cellular and internet communications.”
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has appealed for a humanitarian ceasefire as aid access in Gaza collapses due to the continuous bombardment in Gaza.
“Given the desperate and dramatic situation, the United Nations will not be able to continue to deliver inside Gaza without an immediate and fundamental shift in how aid is going in,” said the UN chief.
Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari says ground operations in Gaza are expanding as bombardment of the enclave intensifies tonight. He added that residents of Gaza City should move south, despite continued Israeli airstrikes there.
The violence has continued to escalate in the region, with Israel targeting residential buildings. The Israeli violence has killed at least 7,500 Palestinians and left over 15,000 injured.
