Hope it works. Lack of communications with outside world reduces accountability of the involved actors, and increases the risk of ethnic cleansing. It's unfortunate humanitarian disasters like this still happen in the XXI century.
> Per my post, no Starlink terminal has attempted to connect from Gaza.
> If one does, we will take extraordinary measures to confirm that it is used only for purely humanitarian reasons.
> Moreover, we will do a security check with both the US and Israeli governments before turning on even a single terminal.
I'm glad he said this, and I really hope he means it. My biggest fear from reading this headline was immediately that Hamas would just end up using them.
Yeah, Hamas will surely go and use some geolocatable internet US spy device. The first thing they're going to do, after we were made to believe that they fooled the whole of Israeli intelligence while planning a 1000s strength land attack.
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[ 0.27 ms ] story [ 35.8 ms ] thread> Per my post, no Starlink terminal has attempted to connect from Gaza.
> If one does, we will take extraordinary measures to confirm that it is used only for purely humanitarian reasons.
> Moreover, we will do a security check with both the US and Israeli governments before turning on even a single terminal.
I'm glad he said this, and I really hope he means it. My biggest fear from reading this headline was immediately that Hamas would just end up using them.
He's stated he is providing humanitarian aid, not tools of war (regarding ukraine) so I expect the same here.