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Fascinating article about what it takes to keep Gaza online during the Israeli bombardment.

PalTel buries its cables 8m/26ft deep (standard is 60cm/2ft), uses generators, solar panels, and batteries for redundancy, and has 750 employees braving bombs to do fixes. Even still, Israel can cut them off at any time.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/21/keeping-gaza-online-gazas-telecom-heroes-risk-life-and-limb-under-israels-bombs

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