Israel Cut Off Gaza's Communications Because Murderers Don't Like Witnesses by Caitlin Johnstone

Israeli ground forces have ramped up activities in Gaza in what anonymous US officials are reportedly telling the press is a "rolling start" to the long-anticipated ground invasion.

Israel has also crippled Gaza's largest telecommunications service, which had been the enclave's last remaining contact with the outside world after Israel knocked out all the others. Humanitarian organizations and mainstream press outlets now say they have lost communication with their contacts in Gaza in a level of information blackout we're unaccustomed to seeing in modern times.

"This information blackout risks providing cover for mass atrocities and contributing to impunity for human rights violations," Human Rights Watch correctly notes.

Reading by Tim Foley.