Undersea cables cut in the Red Sea, disrupting internet access in Asia and the Mideast
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – S submarine cable cuts in the Red Sea broke the internet access in some parts of Asia and the Middle East, experts were not clear on Sunday, what caused the incident.
There were concerns that Yemen described as an effort to print to the rebels to end Israel by the Houthi rebels of the Houthi rebels in the Red Sea campaign. War to Hamas Gaza Strip. But Houthis refused to attack lines in the past.
With submarine cables, satellite connections and black -based cables, it is one of the backbone of the internet. Typically, internet service providers have multiple access points, and if one fails, it reappears the traffic, but can slow down access to users.
Through a status website, Microsoft announced that the Middle East may have increased delay due to submarine fiber outages in the Red Sea ”. Washington -based Redmond said he was not “impressed ,, but the Washington -based company wasn’t detailed.
Netblocks, who watched the internet access, said that “a series of submarine cables in the Red Sea also includes India and Pakistan.
South East Asia -Middle East -West Europe 4 cables are operated by Tata Communications, a part of the Holding of India. The Indian-Middle East-West European cable is operated by another consortium controlled by Alcatel-Lural. Both companies did not respond immediately to comments requests.
Telecommunications giant in that country, Pakistan Telecommunications Co. Ltd., said the interruptions took place on Saturday.
Saudi Arabia did not accept the disruption immediately and the authorities did not respond to the request for comments.
In the United Arab Emirates, which host Dubai and Abu Dhabi, internet users in the country’s Du and Etisalat Networks complained more slowly about internet speeds. The government did not immediately accept the deduction.
Submarine cables can be cut by anchoring falling from ships, but can also be targeted in attacks. Repairing as a ship may take weeks and the crew must find themselves on the damaged cable.
The slaughter of the lines emerges when Yemen’s Houthi rebels remained locked in a series of attacks targeting Israel in the Gaza Strip on the Israeli-Hamas War. Israel responded to air strikes that killed the best leaders in the rebel movement.
At the beginning of 2024, Yemen’s internationally accepted exile government claimed that Houthis plans to attack submarine cables in the Red Sea. A few cuts, but Houthis refused to be responsible. On Sunday morning, Houthis’s Al-Masırah Satellite News Channel admitted that interruptions took place by referring to Netbloks.
From November 2023 to December 2024, Houthis targeted more than 100 ships with missiles and drones through the Israeli-Hamas War in the Gaza Strip. In his campaigns so far, Houthis sank four ships and killed at least eight sailors.
Iran -backed Houthis stopped attacks during a short ceasefire during the war. Then they became the target An intensive week campaign Air attacks ordered by US President Donald Trump because the ceasefire was reached with the rebels. HOUTHİS Two ships sank in JulyIt was believed that at least four killing, others were held by rebels.
Houthis’s new attacks are that a new ceasefire remained in balance during the Israeli-Hamas War. Meanwhile, the future of negotiations between the US and Iran Tehran’s battered nuclear program After the start of a 12 -day war against the Islamic Republic, where Israel bombed the three Iranian atoms, it has started a 12 -day war.
