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Regional shutdown

Gaza

Bombing in Gaza in May 2021 by the Israeli air force destroyed local Internet infrastructure and caused an large outage.

Start 15 May 2021 12:15 UTC
End 25 May 2021 17:00 UTC
Total Duration 10 days, 4 hours

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Bombing in Gaza in May 2021 by the Israeli air force destroyed local Internet infrastructure and caused an large outage.

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Bombing on Gaza affected Internet service providers, including CoolNet and Fusion ISP, as well as SMT datacenter and network on 12 May, however the networks distributed the load to other ISPs to keep users connected. On May 15th further bombing resulted in two smaller ISPs to be totally offline, CityNet and PALWIFI. PALWIFI service resumed on May 18th but the cut was still affecting CityNet. Services started to get back to normal and as of May 25th it was back with over 80% to last month's level.

CAIDA IODA

https://ioda.caida.org/ioda/dashboard#view=inspect&entity=region/1226&lastView=overview&from=-1w&until=now

https://ioda.caida.org/ioda/dashboard#view=inspect&entity=region/1226&lastView=overview&from=-17d&until=now

https://ioda.caida.org/ioda/dashboard#view=inspect&entity=asn/60268&lastView=overview&from=-1w&until=now

https://ioda.caida.org/ioda/dashboard#view=inspect&entity=asn/60268&lastView=overview&from=-2w&until=now

https://ioda.caida.org/ioda/dashboard#view=inspect&entity=asn/44075&lastView=overview&from=-1w&until=now

https://ioda.caida.org/ioda/dashboard#view=inspect&entity=asn/44075&lastView=overview&from=-2w&until=now

Google Transparency Report

https://transparencyreport.google.com/traffic/overview?fraction_traffic=start:1619654400000;end:1621209599999;product:21;region:PS&lu=fraction_traffic

Social media

An Israeli airstrike killed a Palestinian journalist in his home in Gaza, the first known reporter killed. Yusef Abu Hussein's family say there was no warning.

Groups say Israel has bombed at least 18 media outlets this week, plus internet providers, "imposing a media blackout." pic.twitter.com/IH95kKRLpx
— AJ+ (@ajplus) May 19, 2021

Many Gazans cut off from the world as #Israel targets communications and internet networks

More: https://t.co/xTCyOXDOjJ #Gaza_Under_Attack pic.twitter.com/8kwZMOrrZS
— Euro-Med Monitor (@EuroMedHR) May 18, 2021

Small Gaza telecom @CityNetPs (AS56787) went completely offline at 12:15 UTC (3:15pm local) yesterday 15-May according to @kentikinc data.

Same moment the al-Jalaa tower housing @AP and @AlJazeera was attacked.

Link to stats from @caida_ioda:https://t.co/XiiATeQFd8 pic.twitter.com/8SW2e8bJbk
— Doug Madory (also on Bluesky) (@DougMadory) May 16, 2021

Multiple Internet Service Providers in #Gaza went offline the same moment the al-Jalaa tower housing @AP and @AlJazeera was attacked. Analysis by @DougMadory through @kentikinc and @caida_ioda data - #keepiton https://t.co/ltnH1X8yIi
— IODA (@IODA_live) May 16, 2021

Operation Digital Operation: Internet Infrastructure in Palestine

We’ve been following the internet status in #Gaza for the last 2 weeks of #GazaUnderAttack. We noticed instances of internet disruption, some of which could be related to the Israeli attacks on towers in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/WEUkbmL1Ir
— SMEX (@SMEX) May 21, 2021

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