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You are citing individual instances of blackout - not a general blackout impacting the whole CIVILIAN population.

Further, Gaza is not at all like a conventional war. There is no military defending the assaulted population. It's being assaulted from the air with advanced jet fighters and bombs, quadcopters and on the ground by heavy artillery - against which Gaza has absolutely no defense. So it's not a war, it's a killing field.

However, even if it were anything resembling a conventional war, there are laws governing its conduct - which Israel has ignored and violated repeatedly. In this instance, these amount to cyberattacks and are in violation of the principles of distinction and proportionality, in conjunction with the Customary Rule 54: prohibition of attacks against objects indispensable to the survival of civilian population.

This article from an international law expert explains why blanket blackouts are a form of cyber operations and illegal. Much more at the link:
https://opiniojuris.org/2024/03/20/communication-blackouts-israeli-cyberattacks-against-civilians-in-gaza/

Bolding mine - for emphasis on the awful consequences for civilians. We would not accept this level of suffering for any of "our own". That it's considered acceptable for Palestinians to suffer like this has led me to conclude a while ago that this is racism and Arab/Muslim hate, specifically of Palestinians in this case.

Even if hypothetically, this were done simply for military reasons, that would be disturbing too. It would reveal that concern for Palestinian civilians and international law protecting them is not even a consideration. That only Israel's military interests matter. It's a pattern, since the beginning of this "war" and hence the high civilian casualties and acts that without a doubt amount to war crimes.