Elon Musk’s Starlink promise to Gaza

American billionaire Elon Musk announced that the Starlink satellite internet system he owns will be used by world-renowned relief organizations in Gaza. “will support communication” to explain. Starlink only operates in areas where its terminals are located.

Musk was reacting to a communications outage in Gaza by US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with whom he frequently argues. Twitter In his letter he wrote the following: “Starlink will support connectivity to internationally recognized relief organizations in Gaza.”

Israel opposed

Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi commented on Musk’s initiative: “They will fight” Tell: “Hamas will use this for terrorist activities. There’s no doubt about it, we know it, and Musk knows it too. Hamas is ISIS. Maybe Musk can condition this on the release of our kidnapped children, sons, daughters, and elderly people. everyone! By then, my office will sever all ties with Starlink.

useful?

Although this tweet by the richest person in the world received nearly 100,000 likes in a short time, Starlink satellites do not work without terminals.

Musk, himself ‘Solution’ He also introduced it to the protests that broke out in Iran in 2022 after the killing of Mahsa Emini by the morality police.

The Iranian government, which cut off all communications, including the Internet, during the protests, also shut down Starlink and satellite stations. ‘Security threat’ The satellites that support the Internet did not work because he saw that as a problem.

Starlink sent more than 15,000 terminals to Ukraine after the Russian invasion. Although Gaza is a much smaller area than Ukraine, it is unclear how many stations will be required and Israel will likely not allow these stations to pass across the border.

There was no statement from the company that it officially offered its services to Gaza.