Gaza (Quds News Network)- As international focus turns to Israel’s attacks on Iran, the Israeli military is intensifying its attacks in the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of Palestinians and worsening the humanitarian crisis amid a weeks-long blockade.
“Keep Your Eyes on Gaza”
In the hours after Israel attacked Iran, international pressure over Israel’s starvation and civilian killings in Gaza had apparently dissipated.
Since Israel launched attacks on Iran, it has killed more than 140 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including over 40 aid seekers near the distribution sites run by the controversial US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
Internet and fixed-line communications were down across Gaza after Israeli forces bombed the territory’s last remaining fiber optic cable on Thursday. Israel prevented repairs to the internet and telecommunications infrastructure until Saturday evening, when service was finally restored. This move is seen as an effort to further isolate Gaza and restrict news coverage of Israeli attacks.
This move had left Palestinians in Gaza in an information blackout and unable to reach loved ones.
“But why did Israel bomb the main internet fiber route? Why is Israel insisting on isolating Gaza from the world? So we are now deprived from food, water, electricity, and internet,” wrote Gaza-based journalist Hind Khoudary.
Only people who have e-sims have access to the internet across Gaza.
It takes you more than an hour to connect, and another hour to post.
But why did Israel bomb the main internet fiber route? Why is Israel insisting on isolating Gaza from the world?
So we are now deprived…
— Hind Khoudary (@Hind_Gaza) June 12, 2025
That also meant they could not see new forced displacement threats issued by the Israeli military. They also could not access announcements from the GHF, a scandal-plagued organization backed by the US and Israel, created to bypass the UN’s established aid delivery infrastructure in Gaza.
GHF uses only Facebook to communicate with Palestinians in Gaza. Starving aid seekers approached its centres on Saturday morning. Deliberate gunfire from Israeli soldiers killed at least 15 of them.
The Israeli 🇮🇱 ‘army’ are still murdering civilians in Gaza 🇵🇸 who are in desperate need of aid.
Israel 🇮🇱 is using illegal attacks on Iran 🇮🇷 to distract from their starvation of millions of Palestinians.
🇮🇱 is a pariah state.
Expel 🇮🇱 from the UN now.pic.twitter.com/cQTBnROaWZ— Howard Beckett (@BeckettUnite) June 15, 2025
On Friday, an Israeli military spokesperson warned that operations in Gaza would continue “with extreme force” and on Saturday new forced displacement threats were issued for parts of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
“Famine worsens, the siege intensifies, and the dead are everywhere,” Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif wrote in a post on X, saying Gaza was “immersed in complete isolation from the world”.
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem said, “Keep Your Eyes on Gaza, even as Israel opens a new front with Iran”, warning that Israel is “likely to exploit the diversion of global attention to escalate its attacks on Palestinians.”
Don’t Forget Gaza
Palestinians in Gaza, who has been massacred, starved, and displaced by the Israeli occupation, are calling on the world to stand with Gaza and end the ongoing Israeli genocide.
Iran, Iran, Iran.
Israel, Israel, IsraelWhere’s Gaza?
Why do you forget Gaza?Please pray for us.
— Ahmed Shameya (@ahmedshameya995) June 14, 2025
“While the world’s attention is shifting toward Israel’s attacks on Iran, Israel’s assault on Gaza has not stopped, and the massacres continue,” wrote al-Sharif on X.
“Let us refocus on what’s happening in Gaza, especially the severe health crisis and the devastating famine. It is our responsibility to keep Gaza’s voice alive, to share the reality of the ongoing siege and destruction.”
