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U.N. officials said 31 premature babies in precarious health were evacuated from Al-Shifa Hospital to a hospital further south in Gaza.

So pervasive is the pall of chaos in Israel’s government that top officials saw fit to assure a traumatized public that they are “working in close and full cooperation, around the clock.”

It is the ninth blackout the enclave has endured since the war began in early October.

Major Palestinian networks said “all telecom services” in the Gaza Strip were down, leaving most in the enclave cut off from the outside world amid an escalating Israeli operation.

The peril faced by humanitarian workers in Gaza has interrupted or obstructed the delivery of aid in a place where, aid groups have warned, hundreds of thousands of people are facing famine conditions.

Officials from Qatar, Egypt and the U.S. hope that a succession of pauses will pave the way toward a larger goal: bringing the war to a close.

It was the first sign of Sasha Troufanov since May, when the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group posted two videos of him. His family pressed for the release of all the hostages in Gaza.

The ground assault immediately evoked the hostage-taking attacks that scarred Israel in 2006, but it was whether any Israelis might have been seized this time.

Israel and Hamas have agreed to brief pauses in fighting so that humanitarian workers can begin an inoculation campaign.

Demonstrators’ efforts to rally against Hamas, including at protests on Monday, have been foiled by a heavy security presence.