Gaza’s Phone & Internet Connections Cut Off Again

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians reported another widespread outage of internet and phone service in Gaza for the second time in less than a week. Wednesday’s outage came hours after Israeli airstrikes leveled apartment buildings and as ground troops battled Hamas militants inside the besieged territory. Aid agencies have warned that such blackouts severely disrupt their work in an already dire situation in Gaza. More than half of the population of 2.3 million Palestinians has been displaced and basic supplies are running low more than three weeks into the war triggered by Hamas’ bloody Oct. 7 rampage into southern Israel. Also on Wednesday, foreign passport holders were allowed to cross from Gaza into Egypt for the first time since the war began.