AhlulBayt News Agency: Palestine’s deputy minister of telecommunications and digital economy, Huda al-Wahidi, said the Israeli occupation army had completely destroyed about 74 percent of the telecommunications infrastructure assets in the Gaza Strip.
Wahidi made the remarks during her recent participation in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) council meeting that was held in Geneva, according to a statement released by the ministry on Sunday.
Addressing the attendees, Wahidi stated that the telecommunications sector in Gaza had suffered losses of around $164 million due to the Israeli destruction of 580 cellular towers and key fiber optic networks.
Wahidi described the ongoing collapse of Gaza’s digital and telecommunications infrastructure as an “unprecedented crisis” that has severely disrupted telecommunications services across the war-ravaged territory.
The Palestinian official called on ITU to provide protection for the Palestinian telecommunications sector against Israeli attacks, which destroyed most of its infrastructure in Gaza.
She also pointed out that the telecommunications sector in the West Bank had incurred losses estimated at $215.4 million as a result of the Israeli army’s operations and repeated closures, as well as due to the illegal expansion of Israeli networks.
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