On Friday, the Gaza Strip completed seven consecutive days without internet and other telecommunications services and, although it is the seventh time that this type of blackout has occurred during the current conflict, this is the longest, warned this Saturday the daily report of the United Nations on the war between Israel and terrorists from the Palestinian enclave.
This interruption in telecommunications makes it difficult to distribute humanitarian aid, first aid and even daily monitoring of the situation in the region, said the UN. Agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO) lament, for example, the current difficulty in monitoring the cases of hepatitis A that have been detected in Gaza, as there are no functioning laboratories and there is very limited capacity to carry out tests.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs continues to criticize the frequent cancellation of aid missions to northern Gaza, especially since the beginning of the year, as in January 22 of 29 missions had to be suspended due to lack of permission from the Israeli part, 76% of the total.
In the last 24 hours, according to the local Ministry of Health (linked to Hamas), Israel's attacks on Gaza left 165 dead and 280 injured, so that the total number of deaths since October 7th is now close to 25 thousand, while injured exceed 60 thousand.
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