Gaza faces an imminent threat of total telecommunications and internet disruption as Israeli forces continue their bombardment of residential high-rises in Gaza City, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has warned.

On Friday, Israeli forces struck the 15-storey Mushtaha Tower west of Gaza City with five high-explosive bombs, completely destroying the building and damaging hundreds of nearby tents.

The following day, the regime’s forces also destroyed the Sussi Tower. Many of these high-rises host base station antennas critical for local telecommunications and internet networks.

An evacuation order for a third high-rise building, Al-Roya Tower, was issued on Sunday.

Euro-Med Monitor said on Sunday that targeting high-rises is part of Israel’s broader policy of “urbicide,” combining physical destruction with forced displacement to alter Gaza’s demographic reality.

“The deliberate targeting of communications infrastructure is an indirect means of killing,” the rights group said.

"By severing communication networks and destroying shelters, the strategy isolates residents, prevents documentation of crimes, and undermines emergency response.”

The organization added that this strategy “terrorizes civilians, forces their displacement southward, and erases the urban environment that could otherwise allow their return in the future.”

Telecom and internet outage imminent in #Gaza as Israel bombs residential high-riseshttps://t.co/EjPczt10z4

— Euro-Med Monitor (@EuroMedHR) September 7, 2025

Euro-Med Monitor also warned that fuel shortages further exacerbate the risk of total collapse for remaining operating stations, leaving Gaza increasingly cut off from the outside world.

The Israeli military issued an evacuation order for the residents of al-Roya Tower and the surrounding tents, calling on them to immediately move south toward what it calls the humanitarian zone in al-Mawasi.

Israel claims that the building was being used by Hamas for surveillance—an allegation denied by the Palestinian group.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in early August that the military was preparing to occupy Gaza City. On Sunday, Netanyahu said his forces were “deepening the maneuver on the outskirts of Gaza City and within Gaza City itself.”

The United Nations has previously warned that the offensive could trigger “massive forced displacement” and “more killing."