Israel has continued to demolish homes in the Tulkarm refugee camp as the number of displaced Palestinians rises to more than 40,000 since the military operation in the occupied West Bank began in January.
According to Israeli rights group B’Tselem, Israeli offensives in Tulkarm, Nur Shams, and Jenin camps have led to the displacement of tens of thousands.
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‘Political Decision' - Israel Escalates Home Demolitions in West Bank - Palestine Chronicle
Home demolitions by Israeli forces surged in recent weeks, with 106 homes and 104 other buildings destroyed in Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
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Admittedly, I haven't been paid to touch an HLR since 2001 (once upon a time I obtained the probably not coveted: "Acatel Certified HLR Technician" title).
Back then, they were still running Sybase for their SQL implementation! Yikes!
Admittedly, even that employer (which had HLRs old enough they were still branded: "DSC" from before Alcatel had acquired them) offloaded all the SQL to three-way fault tolerant/redundant "Resilience" (if I am remembering the vendor name correctly, which I might not be anymore) systems.
I don't even remember the last time I thought about those systems and their "FT-SPARC" (the FT for "Fault Tolerant") lock-step jank! So expensive! So slow! Despite the "FT" branding, I have at least one memory of an HLR crashing because the serial console [a WYSE terminal IIRC] attached to it went poof and the friggin thing basically halted as a result. That was a "fun" night in the NOC! (We did, eventually, somehow, manage to drag that company from "two nines" to "three nines" of uptime before I quit in 2001.)
IIRC Osmocom could at least handle GSM? The Sybase vintage stuff I was paid to work on was all mostly still the AMPS vintage.
That employer's SS7 packet sniffer, was bought used and ran DOS and still cost $40,000!
So, "toy" or not, I don't think the commercial market really had much to offer as a viable alternative way back when? I do remember some other company demoed a fancier SS7 packet sniffer running on a Tadpole (Solaris era)! The laptop alone probably cost over $20k! I don't remember what they wanted to charge for their software, but six figures before decimal places seems familiar? Certainly in alignment with the obscenely expensive prices they paid for some other things (I think NetCool licenses cost five figures back then and were a far cry from even something as rudimentary as nagios).
That company (which eventually got a third round of funding from Marconi if memory serves) thought the Tadpole/Solaris SS7 packet sniffer upgrade was too expensive and passed on the snazzy GUI and what would have been (by comparison) a merciful way to grep and sed through output without having to write something to a floppy disk from DOS sniffer and load it onto a better system for more sophisticated analysis as we had been doing, if the need arose.
I am pretty out of touch with more recent Osmocom developments; but good to see they were at least considering LMDB?
Chaos Communications Camp circa 2011 had a fun presentation that Karsten Nohl et al gave which leveraged OsmocomBB to some extent?
HAR in 2009 also had an Osmocom event only cellular system (as more of a proof of concept alternative to the CCC popular DECT phone stuff) IIRC? Definitely worthwhile research for what it was, but I don't know if they really ever had objectives to be much more than research? I'm guessing WHY (the 2025 iteration of HAR: why2025.org/) might have something new and improved if laforge is attending? I would like to (I had way more fun at HAR than CCCamp), but I don't think it's in the cards for me.
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