While the world celebrates the technology’s potential to build more inclusive societies, Gaza faces the most aberrant forms of isolation and digital blackout, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) and the Telecommunications Ministry criticized.

The document presented by both institutions highlighted that the Internet became the leading means of communication in the coastal enclave, to seek help and communicate the truth, in an attempt to save lives in the face of what it described as a genocidal war.

The report refers to the results of the Labor Force Survey (LFS), conducted by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) during November and December 2024, which shows a significant decline in Internet usage rates in Gaza.

During the offensive, more than 15 major communications and Internet outages were documented in Gaza, some of which lasted for days.

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