The Palestinian Telecommunications Company “Paltel” confirmed today, Thursday, that this is the longest period of communications outage in Gaza, explaining that it lasted for more than 144 hours, especially after the interruption of communications and Internet services in the Strip since last Friday.

The company said in a blog post on its official account on the “X” platform: “Many hours of service interruption. How many loved ones have we lost?” How much do we worry about our loved ones? Demanding, “Keep Gaza connected.”

The NetBlocks Observatory, which specializes in monitoring network security, said that Gaza has entered its seventh day without communications, with the network having exceeded 144 hours.

It pointed out that the current outage is the longest since the start of the Israeli war on the Strip.

Last Tuesday, the government media office in Gaza warned that cutting off communications and Internet services could “cause disasters that threaten the lives of citizens.”

It said in a statement: “Cutting off communications and the Internet means disasters that threaten the lives of citizens.”

It pointed out that “no one will be able to reach the dead and wounded (due to the interruption of communications services and the impossibility of communicating with ambulances), and thus the number of victims will increase exponentially in light of the continuation of the brutal war and the continuous bombing of homes and safe neighborhoods.”

The government office stressed that the interruption of these services is a “complete, premeditated crime,” pointing out that its continuation works to “deepen the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Strip.”