The Israeli occupation and the U.S. don't want Gaza to go online, according to a report by the Intercept. Here are further details.🧵
A new resolution drafted by Saudi Arabia to rebuild Gaza's war-ravaged telecommunications infrastructure has been watered down following 'Israel' and U.S. protests.
The U.S. delegate at the ITU summit in Geneva had specifically opposed the proposal's language about Israel’s responsibility for the destruction of Gaza.
The Saudi proposal explicitly called out Israel’s role in hobbling Gaza’s connection to the world, either via severing fiber cables, razing cellular towers, or draconian restrictions on technology imports.
The more 'Israel' bombs, the harder it is for Gazans to know they are about to be bombed, which adds to the war’s already staggering death toll, the proposal revealed.
Israel had blasted the proposal as a whole fearing that Hamas could use the internet to prepare new resistance operations against 'Israel' and is afraid to reveal the truth about the war.
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