I’m having a hard time looking this up through search engines. No shade at all, but I haven’t seen anyone get someone in Palestine to do some traceroutes and understand how genocide data is being routed.
Does anyone know?
I’m trying so hard to claw at the smallest thing I can do to help, is there a person in a network box I can send a bottle wine to so the packets keep flowing?
“Palestine” encompasses some politically different territories.
Gaza: they access internet mostly via donated esims these days due to the blockade. A lot of them may be using Israeli telecom companies and towers (I bought an Israeli esim for a friend of mine in Gaza a while ago), but as far as I can tell there are other internet providers in the SWANA region whose esims also cover Gaza.
West Bank: afaik have different internet to Israel though I imagine there may be a mix between using Israeli internet providers and West Bank specific providers.
East Jerusalem: I imagine same internet situation as the West Bank, maybe leaning more towards Israeli internet providers?
Historic Palestine/'48 Palestine that’s now “Israel”: will be using Israeli internet. Remember that this is still Palestine, and there are still Palestinians living here, though very few. But they do exist; one of my Palestinian friends is a '48 Palestinian. She has an “Israeli” ID; her phone number is “Israeli”; etc.
If your goal is to help people experiencing genocide to stay connected, I recommend you donate esims. There are a lot of esim donation initiatives out there. Here’s one for instance: https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza
It’s particularly crucial in the face of Israel’s campaign against journalists, that the people of Gaza are able to broadcast what is happening.
chuffed is the place. I’ve given what I can. My senators are both war criminals under the genocide convention
Ok good point, I was thinking Gaza and Anas al-Sharif. So, all wireless mostly through Israeli ISPs? wild
Gaza has been under siege since 2007 so Israel controls their internet. Hence why they are reliant upon esims, as Israel has cut off Gaza’s internet since 2023.
I hope you’re not taking this the wrong way, I’m trying to convince my boomer dad. Honesly, I think we should miliarily intervene