Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting via satellite from Khan Younis in Gaza, pleads with his audience (video here):
We don’t know about anything that is happening in other districts in the territory.
Maybe there are new bombardments taking place in these areas. We don’t know how many victims. We can only hear bombardments everywhere, but we don’t know any anything about the casualties, about the situation on the ground.
We don’t know anything also about the medical conditions of doctors, medical workers, even at the al-Shifa Hospital [the largest in Gaza].
The situation is catastrophic right now.
We can no longer communicate with the international community to send our voice to the world to know what is happening on the ground.
I hope that this message might reach and have access to the world despite what we have experienced throughout the last hour.
The situation on the ground is really terrible. Everyone is afraid, everyone is terrified.
Please, guys, if you can hear us send this message to the world that we are becoming isolated.
Al Jazeera currently only has sporadic communication with correspondents in Gaza following the latest attacks on the besieged enclave.
There is a big push on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, for Starlink internet services to be provided for Gaza, amid the almost total communications blackout in the enclave.
The hashtag “#starlinkforgaza is trending on the platform, with more than half a million posts.
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Jews' Ground Operations Expanding In Gaza
Communication in and out of Gaza has been severed, adding a media blackout to the literal blackout.
Gaza residents have said Friday’s strikes were the most intense they’ve felt since Israel began operations earlier this month.
A CNN team in southern Israel described a huge wall of heavy smoke blowing from Gaza that lingered 15 to 30 minutes – possibly the type that serves as cover smoke that for military operations.
As hundreds of thousands of Israeli soldiers surrounding Gaza – on the ground, in the sea, and in the air – await orders to enter, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh declared, “the world is facing a historic moment ” and must act to stop the “aggression and massacres” that would certainly take place in a ground invasion.
An Israeli spokesperson claims the operations are “to protect the state.”
Middle East Monitor reports,
It is feared Israel will use the black out to commit greater war crimes against a population which will no longer be able to inform the world what is happening or get international help.
This also means Palestinians in Gaza can no longer call for an ambulance or civil defense teams to help in rescue operations after Israel targets their neighborhoods.
Reports from the area also appear to indicate tremors deep in the earth which can be felt for miles away, which analysts believe is Israel using new bombs to penetrate the Palestinian resistance’s tunnels.
A short time ago, Palestine Chronicle reported the following updates:
ISRAELI MILITARY: An Israeli military spokesman told ABC News that the expanded operations currently underway in Gaza are not the “official ground invasion” of the territory.
RESISTANCE NEWS NETWORK: “Intense armed clashes have broken out on the eastern front of the north and central Gaza Strip, as resistance fighters repel limited ground incursions by Zionist forces.”
AL-JAZEERA: Al Jazeera correspondent said that Israeli gunboats were bombing sites in Gaza, and that warplanes were launching a series of raids on the central Gaza Strip.
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