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global purchase of vanilla, but the gold bank says madagascar is one of the world's poorest countries. whoever wins this election would have to address white spade property as well as managed any fort out that could happen. if results are disputed. hardwood tasha which is there. a wildfire has continued to burn widely across brazil's tropical wetlands according to meet urologist silver. $3000.00 blazes broke out during the 1st 15 days of november, brazil's pump, and now the wetlands which origin biodiversity are suffering from an intense heat wave. this and that does it for me, several venue. i'll be back to the top of the hour with more of your days news, including continuing coverage of israel's war on god's up next street. the the

knowledge is here. with access to the internet is considered a basic human rights. it keeps us informed to entertain, to allows us to connect with each other and the world. and that connection is especially important 3 times of war. and these pauses, and this is the stream, the we don't have internet, people can call the ambulance and the bombings all around us. so that will lead us hopefully that it, this little bit by the have you been that these are the most levels of.

busy israel's war on gaza has taken on a multitude of shapes the bombing and the rays are only parts of the story. another less talked about weapon is connectivity, or lack there of israel controls most of the electricity, as well as the telecommunications and internet access and gaza. first, it turned off the power lines which made hospitals and even sewage plants to stop working. later, internet blackouts were registered across the strip, which made a dire situation even worse. so we managed to connect with the one resident office on a jar who is in the south of gaza strip a half. thank you so much for joining us here on the stream today. can i start by asking you after over a month of k us and destruction all around you? just how are you doing? i have just been texting someone. my credit is on the instagram and laptop my

credit score and not in the gaza. strippers. and telling them that i almost forgot who i am and i almost forgot how my life used to be before the aggression and the gaza strip started. i was just telling them that i don't want to reach to the point where i'm used to what's happening, where, where i wake up every day. when with the thought that, oh this is never going to end. i think that i've been trying my best to stay with her together and, and you know, keep my strength and my energy and everything by today's spending today after everything. but that's been happening for, for about a month now. more than a month now. and the officers seeing much members of my family getting killed and in the air strikes and after losing so many friends. um i can really say, but i'm, i'm about to lose it. honestly,

you said you've been messaging friends outside of gauze. how important is it to keep that connection alive right now? the connection is social. it's very important when, when, when the connection was cut off from the gaza strip was cut off twice completely of the fact that it's very weak right now. but when it was cut off completely, and i remember that i felt like i was in an open in the i swear to god, it's almost funny. felt like someone has done, got a grace for me and told me to just stay there. you know, i felt like my hands were tied, my mouth was shot and that there's nothing i can do anymore. and i remember that's after the internet came back. that i bet you was

everyone's isn't firefighters were fighting people on the street. let me get to, no one was able to call them. when no one was able to pull the envelope, this is the husk instead of the dentures. an attack in this specific area, please come and pick up the die, then pick up the injuries. no one was able to do with that awful. would you say this is perhaps another tool of war need they are trying to break the spirit of the palestinians up more. they saw the bombing in order that feeling and destruction still keep the pot of cmt for space even that they are looking out for the way it is priest of which was cutting off the connection pump key of the palestinians in garza then went onto bombing the happens that are on top of that to be used in houses and,

and so much more so that even have any electricity any more, whatsoever. and then targeting looked at when they started to totally think they could just be starting to target think shots, the are they are trying to do anything. they can not need to close as much construction as possible in as much as the case i spoke to was to break up the experience of the college and score skills in their homes. when things the cleansing and resisting the displacement of experience of, of the. 7 on the drawer, thank you so so much for taking the time to speak to us here on the stream. let's now bring get 2 more voices. 2 very important voices into this conversation. i'll put tucker is the executive director of net blocks. a cyber security monitoring group is joining us today from is stumble and near not l. hawaii. he's a, she's a journalist and author, we initiated connecting gaza to collect and send it seems to people there. she's

joining us from cairo. thank you both so much for being here and we're not, we will talk about the incredible movement you started in in just a moment. but i'll be if i can start with you. your organization has been monitoring these blackouts in gaza and on october 27th, you said that you observed a large single, the largest single internet disruption in golf the since the war started. and we have a tweaks that you put out a tool to or near blackouts of the internet service. can you help us understand the graphic that you guys tweak to that day? what exactly are we seeing over here? yeah, that's right. so on the 27th, we tracked a very significant, a major disruption to connectivity across the gaza strip. and this was unprecedented in terms of what we'd monitor, both during this conversation. and before, if you take a look at the chart, you can see the observe who connectivity levels. so what these represent

a really an outside analysis in real time of connectivity in each of those regions . and you can see that sooner connectivity the, at the beginning prior to the 7 is fairly stable and then you see over time, at the very side of this come to see a decline in connectivity. now we know that the decline is attributed to a couple of reasons. one of them being let me saw strikes from israel and the other being the population flight as people leaves the territory. so you have those 2 factors, but then on the 27th, you can see a very significant, a major disruption from us connectivity. just blacks out. this is links with a major military operation by israel that coincides with that time. and so we know that these instructions have been implemented during those times for generation of some 36 hours between the 27th and the 29th of october,

the side of break major impact on people's ability to communicate. and it's really limits at the wells routes to understand those of what's going on within the territory. so obviously a huge impact and i, i know you guys have also observed other blackouts since then. yeah, that's right. so this was an isolated incidents as we continue to monitor. we try to apply the one of the destructions on 1 november on the 1st of november just a few days later, which last at some 9 and a half hours or so. and in terms of the mechanism that was devoid, there was face similar, identical to what happened on the 27th. so we now know by the 1st of november that the same thing is happening exact. same thing is happening again a 2nd time. we can tell from the fingerprints of this telemetry that is impact to the exact same exchange of the same network and it's having the same effect. sometimes websites will near total blackout for the residence of the guys district

. and then again, on the 5th of november, we said it was time. same thing happens for the 3rd time, this time for 15 hours. and so you know that we have these 3 major blackouts in effect. and now i mean the, the fact that we see these lines kind of coming back up again. so it means the overlay, some source of connectivity was restored after these lockouts in my understanding this correctly. because if this was damage to the infrastructure, then that's it. the internet is gone and it's gone forever, but the fact that it comes back, does it suggest that this has some kind of, i don't know, a technical trigger is behind these blackouts. all right, so we need to take a look at the main mechanisms of disruptions to understand what's going on here. i mean there's really 3 main causes, what's the, the destructions, and we have the power outages. we have the kinetic impacts of the war or the fight

to. then we also have these rails ability to uh, connect to disconnects the district at will. this is because the causative relies on is ready to connectivity are not showing much is it relies on his writing power out on his ready resources due to the geography of the situation. so there are many hallmarks, many indicators here that these have been technical mechanisms used to disrupt connectivity. and what we know for says and is that the same thing has happened in each of these 3 incidents. so in terms of a reason for this, you know, if it'd been data sure, infrastructure it simply wouldn't have been possible to get per pad and statements from the providers. also say that they don't know, they didn't actually apply fixes that brought back the connectivity. so there are very strong indicators that this connectivity has been disrupted from the outside with intent. uh huh. i mean, you mentioned impacts and if i can get near now on this, we talked about obviously the emotional toll of just feeling completely cut off

from the world. but that has also very practical implications. and i, i imagine you have been hearing about these implications in your work as well. and we're not of course being guides related to being the joining good uncertainty of not being able to communicate with the outside world or with your family members or legal loved ones. or even the hospitals and the ambulance, this is it is for me it all pages and the if you want to the we're trying to make it in the got the um, i've been connecting deeply since the october 28th or 29th. uh we have been, we've been connected. we have connected more than 20000. um, it seems um it, there are now actually because in garza and we are 5 take time to go next to more

people since the yesterday. and because they are there is supposed to be a huge possibility for the communication and the instead of math to go for it i told to black out, due to lack of you in the, in got that many, many, many in network provider like what do you do and the way that's gonna be in the providers. how about love published yesterday? a option to statements on the social media thinking that they are going to be a company called off from providing the communication and the internet access due to the lack of fuels. so you star, so this alone but you, you now have a team. i believe you have several people with you so you can keep this the service operating 24 hours a day. yes, larry team all of 11 people so far because it's hard to um,

to grow your team when, when it comes to protection of privacy of the donors details and also uh being in direct contact with people in guys that to protect their safety. so i have to be sure um to 100 percent of the each and every member they might be sure and, and how, how does this idea the idea of connecting gaza this movement research and how does it come about? i'm actually, i was in trial at the time next to that kind of thing in the presence a for the nation with the egyptian best preference with the star name, the starting the company in a box. because if we could do that, you can provide internet access through his company to the obviously a 8 organization and got that. but we seem to print that request and leave it on in a month. we do to one of the leaders in the,

the occupation army and that he wouldn't know through it. he would not provide internet access without the permission of usa and which made me still angry. and i was updating my hardware step by step. but through that, the big waste of store link and one of my followers to additionally been used, she said, that suggested do what do you think of it's in good work and i was like, well maybe we can. so i told her to 70 to you soon as try and i kept scrolling next to find any, uh, people from guys that uh, who are connected even with like we connection so we can try on that 1st to isn't uh, these 2 people are doing really well as the and beautiful daddy and i've sent them that it seems and it we successfully and we provide them with more sense to

provide to the themes and people around them. and then i, uh, i posted like a quote can use a call and coordination ease of explanations on my personal account. uh and thousands of people around the world get sending me donations up as you are codes and you send the nations as well. i have to um, to create an email, an email address, especially for uh, receiving that donated isms and then and then the community just just grew and grew . can it, can i ask her very briefly what, what i mean if things are a relatively new technology? can you explain just a few words? how do they work? and so, and an eastern is like, and the non physically, uh, sim card that has an extension extension of your internet package and calls back to your um number. so when uh, when

a person in europe or usa or her the, where is it by and is in. so he buys the extension to view the package that can be used. um for roaming. are interesting. it's fascinating. i imagine that you are going through quite a lot, as you said, uh you, you, you barely have time to sleep. you have to bring other people in. i would like to think of both of you very much for joining us today out and we are now for your time. uh not because you are so busy, we're gonna let you go and we wish you best of luck all put you too, of course. and i would like to now turn me to another guest, a very important guess today as well, to help us uh, put this puzzle together. door home, i will send him. you are joining us from dc. he's a writer and a communication specialist. and you have family inside garza right

now. can you tell us about how you're getting by and how are you managing to connect with your father and your mother in gaza? very, very difficult. uh, unfortunately, you know, uh since this uh, these, the question i started, i guess the cost of only much to tear to most of my parents and for them to hear my voice. it's 3 to 4 times which to me is on the line and someone was always in touch with his family, calling my mother and my father almost in a daily basis. a sort of a situation has been very, very difficult for me because of the things that you know. uh, because that is because i haven't mentioned to me, is it just the question of the internet connectivity and our ability to reach our families, but also not far off by, you know, as like a messenger or even the text messaging over the data plans. but also that was that more of been severely impacted by this to the point where it's very,

very difficult to make these kind of holes. mm hm. can you tell us a little bit about about your, your mom and your dad. we're seeing them in some photos right now. you know, i'm my mother and by the stripper to my siblings, my mom is in her late sixty's and she's a blind woman my father, and it's at 18 years old and it's paralyzed along with them to buy some makes a younger sister or an older brother and their goal is to bring currently in our household. we also bring 3 more families. a, you know, been, would be displaced in the city towards sort of the cities that we are faced. and then about which is finding the adult, the cost of the situation. but the is incredibly unbearable and inhumane. and i'm being fine, you know, the, the, the electricity, the lat, whole food with my parents and specifically, you know, only people who live with disabilities and on it understands. unfortunately, also the medication is white. certainly

a lot of people that it will be so new just to say, i mean, as it goes for everyone in the gospel, they mean the situation is going to be more so composite was living with disabilities, but it really is a spot for a 2nd. for someone like me at a distance uh was also enjoyed. and was there doing, for example, the 2014 which of these really doctor visits the doctor. i am john and, and got some pain they in and they are thinking about going door. and even at a distance and you know, or for me that question for an activity remains very, very critical. and you're not talking about the eastern, which i think of been very, very useful. i have, you know, managed to get you seems to my sister and the concept. although i must say, i mean even installing those is why 100 was exercised quite visible without a permission to begin with. installing can be difficult. and even though it worked for some time, it didn't work all the time. so it really is a bit of

a hit and miss so far. mm hm. and it's all the product i, i believe, you know how the is really controlled. the goal start is you don't mind insisting itself, it's not just a question of the condition of the aid and all of the policies that we see. oh, there is such a thing as a digital occupation. all that has to be entered and you start to acknowledge useful occupation and toner, because as i mentioned earlier in the ghost of specifically there's no control of the information structure whatsoever as open the control center as well. even has the benefits, even though it's a, it's a, it's a, it's management the only sense. so it really is up to the use. we got the vision authorities, how they're going to be, is available or not available in kindergarten, sir. but let me see what this particular situation, you know, with all of these laptops that happens. uh, is it something new?

uh, these have been tactics that use any tire offices that were committed against the goal is to. so it's, it's why, you know, predictable in a sense, but it's also been bounced austin decent practices that are pursued as a natural intent and policy. and then as we all know, everything that's on the ground is governed by international law and the laws of war relations or so, what do i want to see? and since you can just dentist, nations and products and, and of course, according to the un internet access is a human rights. and when that was interrupted in gaza, nobody was quite sure it was actually happening. so this was one of the only way residents got information, a message that replaced the traditional call to prayer. take a look the

door how, how powerful over to of war would you say this is going to be possible to hold for someone who usually authorization authorities to, to be able to really match that way. people are communicating reading portfolio altogether. i've seen, you know, people on the ground have tried to find alternative ways at the end of the day. but the fact that these we got provisional stories about how to begin with is a story telling him so far that you are truly controlling whether people are going to be saved from under the whole or example. and i'll share with you a very quick story. i am here based in another space on a website with some friends who are on the doorstep or based here in the united states. the, the, their families, mom, i really to their families how long as you went to the is really

a sol. so partner goes to and he wants to extend our, oh, you know, you're in the u. s. a because we all sprint off from different towns and that goes to originally. uh huh. asking us if we could spread the word about what happened to those families, but it's at home because it was not did or spend the word of a 100 english to missions. there was 2 people provide, at least of all. so i mean this, this to show which is also been easy to control, the legal community is actually, they are very, very impactful and a very negative way regarding the longer the strict social studies able to communicate about developments. you're not able to communicate about saving people's lives, you're not able to communicate about what might be safe or where it might not be safe for people of all of these details. so i really, as it is, but difficult to the absolutely, i'm so sorry to interrupt, but we have a very limited amount of time left. less than a minute. can i ask you if you have

a message, i don't know to your family, to the international community, you can deliver that message through us right now. you know, i think, but since almost everyone's mind, it is imperative on everyone to, you know, ensure that say you have a lot of people and there will be a studio everywhere. certainly in the costa, i know that there is a low consensus around a cold or a ceasefire. even though such a government failed to represent the cold of their own people. in that respect we, you know, i remain vocal and afraid permission. i me that they remain state along with everyone else. and we're committed to be just concerned, as you mentioned, is a matter of human rights as has been mentioned, a door by the amount of nations. so when you look at this particular situation, so always remember that any violation of it is because they won't be attempt them

out to war crimes committed by the door. hon. thank you so so much for joining us, especially in this difficult time. and special thanks to me, you're now off and of course off off, and thank you for watching. don't forget. but if you have a comment about our show, you can talk to us on social media. if you have an idea or a topic that you like to flag for us, we welcome your suggestions. any time can use a hash tag or they handle ag stream, and we will look into it. take care. and i'll see you soon. i as the situation in gaza escalates, we bring you expertise and analysis what the world is allowing these really wanting to know only have the 2 children, but now they are going to kill patients in the hospital. the people that suffer from children now you cannot make

people are starving. the whole system is collapsing. drugs was broken off of that. stay with us for the latest developments on tuesday, and i thought provoking on sundays, but the patient doesn't have time to wait for the extremely unfortunate, but there are no quick wins and events or research. odd hating interviews, do you feel like america is the best thing to do since these days, or is it just a different full? i think the demography of the process facing realities do you feel that the fraction is already starting the g 7 in the u. s. on one side, china and the brakes on the other, i assume there is a huge piece of that to happen to the stores on tools to how does air, israel is still refusing to allow international journals into jobs to cover the carnage. they're all that they can report on 1st hand is the is really saw palestinian reporters of risking everything to get the story f 15 methods on file

killed. and then ask dr. sharon, what's happening on that we don't cover the news. we cover the way the news is the listening post. the is really air strikes, target, residential buildings and gaza is just a jamalia refugee camp. at least 11 people have been killed. the 50 of any a good to have you with us. this is elsa 0 life from the also coming up is really forces.