Internet outage history
Palestine
Operational 19/20 hosts up since Oct 16, 2026 10:00 UTC
Every disruption Blackout Map has recorded in Palestine since monitoring began on October 16, 2026, with reported government shutdowns and submarine cable incidents.
Overview
Last 90 days
Worst status per day, last 90 daysDaily reachability
last 30 daysOur probes · hosts reachable
last 72 hoursIODA · routes and active probing, % of normal
last 72 hoursLatency from our server (Germany)
last 72 hoursThe same measurements as the live panel, per 30 minutes. Times in UTC.
Incidents
All incidents
our probes and IODANo disruptions recorded in Palestine since monitoring started on October 16, 2026.
Attacks and context
Context only — they don't change the status above.
DDoS attacks aimed at Palestine · 7 days
Per hour; each line is relative to its own busiest hour of the week (100%). Context only — attacks never change a country's status.
- Types
- Mirai (UDP) Flood 49% · UDP Flood 24% · DNS Flood 14% · Mirai (TCP) Flood 3%
- Duration
- 21% longer than 1 h · 72% under 20 min
- Size
- 81% under 500 Mbit/s · 0% over 10 Gbit/s
- Web attacks from
- PALTEL Autonomous System 74% · Mada Al-Arab General Services Company 9% · Gemzo information technology Private Joint-Stock company 7%
Routing incidents · 7 days · Cloudflare Radar
0 possible hijacks of networks in Palestine, 1+ route leaks involving it.
Long-term history
Before our monitoring: IODA archive
25 incidents · 5 blackouts · 9 partial outagesOutages in Palestine detected by IODA (Georgia Tech) between January 2022 and the start of our own monitoring: drops in the country's internet routes (BGP) or in its reachability from IODA's active probing, compared with the day before. Each is checked against IODA's signal; small dips are left out.
| Started (UTC) | Duration | Worst level | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2026 22:20 | 30 min | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 4% of normal |
| Jun 20, 2026 11:40 | 2 hours | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 27% of normal |
| Aug 10, 2025 07:30 | 30 min | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 83% of normal |
| Apr 30, 2025 16:30 | 50 min | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 66% of normal |
| Mar 29, 2025 10:10 | 3 hours | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 32% of normal |
| Mar 25, 2025 22:10 | 3 hours | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 86% of normal |
| Mar 25, 2025 20:10 | 1 hour | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 81% of normal |
| Mar 25, 2025 17:40 | 40 min | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 88% of normal |
| Nov 27, 2024 02:00 | 30 min | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 77% of normal |
| Nov 25, 2024 19:40 | 30 min | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 77% of normal |
| Jul 6, 2024 11:00 | 30 min | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 73% of normal |
| Nov 19, 2023 12:40 | 2 hours | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 18% of normal |
Show all 25
| Started (UTC) | Duration | Worst level | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 2023 08:30 | 40 min | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 94% of normal |
| Oct 13, 2023 01:40 | 6 hours | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 93% of normal |
| Oct 12, 2023 23:20 | 1 hour | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 93% of normal |
| Oct 12, 2023 19:20 | 40 min | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 95% of normal |
| Oct 11, 2023 15:40 | 16 hours | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 87% of normal |
| Oct 7, 2023 11:20 | 3 days | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 63% of normal |
| Aug 22, 2023 11:50 | 50 min | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 79% of normal |
| Jul 20, 2023 19:40 | 2 hours | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 82% of normal |
| Nov 8, 2022 06:40 | 40 min | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 71% of normal |
| Jul 2, 2022 05:10 | 40 min | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 28% of normal |
| Apr 1, 2022 21:30 | 2 hours | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 77% of normal |
| Mar 30, 2022 06:30 | 13 hours | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 70% of normal |
| Mar 10, 2022 11:10 | 3 days | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 92% of normal |
Government shutdowns and blocks
since 2019The Internet Society Pulse tracker records 2 government-ordered shutdowns or blocks in Palestine since 2019.
- Regional internet shutdown in Gaza Strip (Internet Services), since Oct 7, 2023 — 341 days
- Regional internet shutdown in Gaza Strip (Internet Services), since May 15, 2021 — 10 days
Shutdown data provided by Internet Society. Pulse
Submarine cable incidents
No submarine cable incidents recorded for Palestine.
Cable incidents: GeoCables (CC BY 4.0). Context only — they never change a country's status.