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Blackouts in Gaza must not be used as ‘weapons of war’: Rights group

Internet shutdowns have hampered the delivery of humanitarian aid to the 2.3 million people of the Gaza Strip [AFP]

A weeklong telecommunications blackout in the Gaza Strip has become a “matter of life and death” and should end immediately, digital civil rights group Access Now says during the longest continuous outage since Israel’s war began.

“It is unconscionable to toy with connectivity amidst unprecedented violence and unfathomable human suffering,” Marwa Fatafta, the group’s policy and advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a statement on Thursday.

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