that israel does not have a right to defend itself, but that also there needs to be more of a balance in more of a vocal approach to the plight of palestinians. to date the bite and administration has launch the power to the israeli government's line on a number of issues in particular, the opposition to a c spy? the question is, how long can i take? no, the voices of rank and file democrats. let's alone. what polls indicate is an increasing number of voters. well, calling for a reset in us is ro policy by kind of, i'll just era washington. just bring you some of the world news now. recent nighttime and the finland is closed, its full busiest border crossings is russia. the 5 smaller ones will remain open house in case that sits in response to moscow's attempts to destabilize it. if a government says moscow has been deliberately funding asylum seekers towards each

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a me in the us citizen, are risking their lives to see coaching film, the ongoing, the persecution fair people. 101 east reveals the never before seen footage on all just 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 to 3 times of war. and these forces, 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 a disorder will be by the have you been that these are the most levels of why that

. busy israel's war on gaza has taken on a multitude of shapes the bombing and the rays are only partial 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 plans to stop working. later, internet blackouts were registered across the strip, which made a dire situation even worse. we managed to connect with the one resident of foster on a jar who was in the south of gaza strip. i have 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 some of my friends on the instagram and laptop,

my friend story, 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 shutting them back. 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. but 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 often 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. uh, how important is it to keep that connection alive right now? the connection is actual. it's very important when, when, when the connection was cut off from the gaza strip is cut off twice completely of the fact that it's very weak right now. but when it was cut off completely, i remember that i felt like i was and then opened in the i swear to god, it's almost funny. felt like someone has got a grace for me and told me to just be 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

got free lunches and firefighters were moving people on the street to him. no one was able to pull them when no one was able to pull the envelope. this is the husk instead of them. there is an attack and this specific area, please come and pick up the guy that pick up the injuries. no one was able to do with us off off, 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 of the teeming and destruction to the palace cmt for spain. even that they are looking for the way it is produced, of which was cutting off the connection pump. key of the product stands in garza then went onto bombing the cabins that are on top of that to be used in houses and,

and so much more. so the people don't even have any electricity anymore whatsoever . and then targeting looked at when they start, the target can be could just be start the target. think shots they are, they are trying to do anything. they can not only need to close as much construction of submit in as much as the cruise as possible was to break up experience of the kind of thing and score skins and their homes when things the cleansing and with this thing that this placement of spins of, of the got the strip off on those are, are, thank you so so much for taking the time to speak to us here on the stream. let's now bring it to 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

a seems to people there she has 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, 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. and 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. and 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 casual 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. 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 these are 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 surface structure, it simply wouldn't have been possible to get for 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 evidence, 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 as a way to definitely stay in the providers. how about the published yesterday? the 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 fuel. so you, 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, all the donors, the teens and also uh, being in direct contact with people in guys that to protect their safety. so i have to be sure um 200 percent of the each and every member it might be sure and, and how, how does this idea the idea of connecting gaza this movement restarted? how does it come about? um, actually i was in um and trying to to next to the public opinion that preston's a for the nation with the egyptian best practice with startling the starting the company in a box. because we do the best we can provide internet access through his company to the obviously a 8 organization and got that. but we seem to print the request and leave it on in

a month. we do to one of the leaders in the, the occupation army and that he would not throw evidence. he would not provide internet access without the permission of the usa and which made me still angry. and i was updating my hardware step by step. but through the request or store link and one of my buddies to additionally been used, she said, suggested do what do you think of it's in good work. i know like, well maybe we can. so i told her to send me to you soon as trying and i guess she 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, that's 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. uh, so 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 you very briefly what, what i mean if things are a relatively new technology? can you explain just a few words? how do they work? 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 simmons. so he buys the extension to view the package that's going to be the was 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 output 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 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 gaza right

now. can you tell us about how you're getting by and, 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. maybe $3.00 to $4.00 times. which to me is on the line and someone was always in touch with this family. calling my mother 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 have your permission to, not only is it just the question of the internet connectivity and our inability to reach our families. but also by far by, you know, as like a messenger or even in the text messaging over the data bands. 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 is 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 possibly displaced in the city towards southern 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 thinking fine, you know, the, the, the, not the electricity, the lat, whole food with my parents 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 positivity with disabilities. but it really is a spot for a 2nd for someone like me to just above was also endorsed. and was there doing, for example, the 2014, which is really occupational? augusta, i am just in power and that's who came 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 i've 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 you've been installing those is why haven't partnered with exercise what physical without a condition to begin with installing can be difficult. and even though it worked

for some time and then what was all the time. so it really is a bit of a hit and miss so far, and it's all the product i, i believe, you know how the is really controlled. the goal stir 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 what was seeing with this particular situation, you know,

with all of these laptops that happens. uh, is it something new? uh, these have been tactical. 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 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 at this by 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 talking to one of these reactivation authorities to, to be able to really manage 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 division authorities about how to begin with is the 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 home are willing to of their families for long uh,

doing the is really a sol. so foreigner goes to and he wants to extend our, oh no, 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 there, spread the word of a 100 english to missions to rescue people for by the least of all. so i mean this, this to show the extent to which is also been easy to control the people to mitigate election day. they are all very, very impactful and a very negative way regarding the longer the step. so you must 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. every want to, uh, you know, ensure that say you have a lot of people and it will be in the city and everywhere. certainly in the costa. i know that there is a long census 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 full and i pray for my family that they remain same along with everyone else. and we're committed to visit is 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 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 these reading war on gods that escalates out his ears, correspondence are on the ground. 150. it is impossible for civil defense teams to come to this part of the refuge account that was due car rushing to the hospital. the is really military is pushing deeper into jobs. i didn't know fed option just to evacuate to the southern areas which cause it to be also

a very risky journey. both diplomats wait for a break through bombardment. thing guys a continue and the families waiting for the return of their relative people are really worried right now that they are facing collective punishment and only going to continue with and it just depends on which is 025 years of the mileage 36 years civil war and indigenous, we've was lifelong search for his disappeared father leads into a world forensic anthropology piecing together his own history. and the stories of thousands of survivors, still sinking truth and justice for the missing loved ones. what come all of us passed on those? a witness documentary on and just so you know, thought provoking on, but the patient doesn't have time to wait for the extremely unfortunate, but there are no quick wins and events or research hard hitting interviews. do you

feel like america is less than the days of these days, or is it just a different full? i think the democracy in the process basically entities do you see that the fraction is already starting the g 7 in the us on one side, china and the brakes on the other. i think there is a huge piece of that to happen via the stores on talk to how does era the . ready are these ready bombardments of gaza continues at least 26 people are killed. then s drawing on con eunice the i'm carry johnston. this is i'll just say a life and also the medical facilities to run out of supply,

leaving the injured to die. israel says it's allowing 2 trucks to fuel the day.