Gaza info blackout 'risks providing cover for mass atrocities': HRW

This image grab from an AFP TV footage shows fire and smoke rising above Gaza City during an Israeli strike on October 27, 2023. The Israeli army on the evening of October 27 carried out bombings of "unprecedented" intensity since the start of the war in the north of the Gaza Strip, particularly in Gaza City. -AFP/Yousef Hassouna
This image grab from an AFP TV footage shows fire and smoke rising above Gaza City during an Israeli strike on October 27, 2023. The Israeli army on the evening of October 27 carried out bombings of "unprecedented" intensity since the start of the war in the north of the Gaza Strip, particularly in Gaza City. -AFP/Yousef Hassouna
By AFP - October 28, 2023 @ 9:20am

JERUSALEM: The near-total telecommunications blackout in Gaza risks providing cover for "mass atrocities", the non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch said Friday, as Israel relentlessly bombards the Palestinian territory.

"This information blackout risks providing cover for mass atrocities and contributing to impunity for human rights violations," the group's senior technology and human rights researcher, Deborah Brown, said in a statement. --AFP