The Palestinian Telecommunications Company announced today, Thursday, an Internet outage in the central and southern Gaza Strip areas due to the Israeli aggression.

The Palestinian Telecommunications Company "Paltel", which provides the service, indicated in a statement that fixed Internet service had been interrupted in the central and southern areas of the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli aggression.

Since the beginning of the aggression on October 7, communications and the Internet have been cut off several times due to direct targeting of communications lines, in addition to targeting company workers and preventing them from repairing damaged lines.

Political and journalistic sources had spoken about the imminent date of the Israeli occupation forces launching a military operation in Rafah, which has become a forced home for displaced Palestinians from all over the Gaza Strip, whose number has reached more than one and a half million, and who live in harsh humanitarian conditions, and under Israeli pressure aimed at displacing them. Forcibly.