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Free calls to Israel, the Palestinian Territories and Afghanistan
We're making it easier to stay in touch with friends and family in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

If you’re a Telstra customer with family and friends in the Middle East or Afghanistan, we know that getting in touch is what’s most important right now, not the cost of the call. That’s why calls are now free from Australia to Israel, the Palestinian territories, or Afghanistan.

From 12:01am AEDT tonight (Wednesday, 11 October), we’ll be providing free calls to Israel, the Palestinian territories, and Afghanistan to help you get in touch with those you care about.

This applies for both pre-paid and post-paid mobiles as well as home phones and will be free until 24 October.

Please keep the comments respectful

I am posting for anyone that might find this useful.

Update: Extended for another month.

Update, 24 October: We have been closely monitoring the situation in the Middle East and Afghanistan and know how important staying connected with loved ones is right now. We have made the decision to extend free calls to until 11:59pm AEDT on 21 November 2023.

Update, 21 November 2023: We have been watching the heartbreaking situation in the Middle East, and know that continued connection with family, friends and loved ones is what’s critical for many of our customers right now. To help support you, we’re extending free calls to Israel and the Palestinian territories to 21 January 2024.

Update, 21 November 2023: At the time this offer was published, we also offered free calls to Afghanistan following a series of devastating earthquakes. As the region moves into recovery phase, we won’t be further extending free calls to Afghanistan.

Update, 19 January 2024: We know how important it is for many of our customers in Australia to continue to stay connected with this region right now. To help support you, we're again extending this offer of free calls to Israel and the Palestinian Territories until 31 March 2024.

Update, 26 March 2024: We know staying as connected as possible with friends and loved ones in these regions remains critical. That's why we're extending free calls to Israel and the Palestinian territories until 30 June 2024.

This applies for both pre-paid and post-paid mobiles as well as home phones and will be free until 30 June 2024.

Remember: due to the unfolding situation in the Middle East and Afghanistan, infrastructure damage may prevent some calls from getting through.

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  • mrkorrupt on 12/10/2023 - 18:38
    +136

    The telephone lines / mobile reception and electricity has been cut to Gaza, how they gonna answer the call? Using telepathy?

    • Bignudge on 12/10/2023 - 18:38
      +36

      That's not the point. You can make the call but whether it will reach or not… is a different story.

      • deme on 12/10/2023 - 19:16
        +9

        What is the point?

        • Archi on 12/10/2023 - 20:23
          +92

          Its called corporate virtue signalling

          • odysseus on 12/10/2023 - 22:28
            -4

            @Archi: So you would prefer they only offered free calls to Israel, and not Palestine.

          • Ade99 on 13/10/2023 - 08:08
            +2

            @Archi: better than having to listen to a 30 second YES23 advert as part of the offer…….

          • Sammyboy on 18/10/2023 - 14:03
            +2

            @Archi: At least they didn't pick a side, offering calls to all

        • umansPrimitiveNature on 12/10/2023 - 20:24
          +13

          When i call overseas and even though the service is not connected on the other end, i am sometimes charged a fee. Now I can try multiple times to reach them without thinking about the fee.

        • johnfuller on 24/01/2024 - 11:45

          right now, gaza has no power because israel cut all power to gaza but israel tells you they left in 2005 but still control everything including blockade of land and sea .. controlling all imports and funding into gaza, israel at this point is a big joke and your all being played by the the western media to believe what israel is doing is right and that they are after "hamas" but in reality they're just going after the innocent, committing ethnic cleansing and genocide. to date, israel has dropped 25,000 tonnes of bombs on gaza within the last few months, thats more than the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, during the first few months of this genocide, israel was only allowing trucks with pallets of white shrouds to wrap and burry the dead bodies, mass graves were dug to bury the dead and israel came and dug it all up, stole all the dead bodies, some of them returned with organs missing and gave the bodies back to the families so they could be buried again, the grief for families having to go through the burial again.

          someone was once telling me that how can it be ethnic cleansing and genocide if the population of gaza increased 10 fold, let me tell you that palestinians from all around israel are having their homes stolen and being relocated without consent to gaza (israel is stealing land day by day in broad day light and kicking palestinians out of their homes that the palestinians built & own with the help of israeli police, and this same home was passed down from generation to generation.) so in reality, they're doing the same thing that happened to the jews in germany, pushing them all into a prison and bombing them.

          the western media doesnt want you to see the truth and in addition to this, they're also not showing you the ICJ court proceedings against israel where they are being held trial to the genocide, ethnic clensing, etc

          how can you drop 25,000 bombs and still hamas is around? israel has zero intel about where hamas is, and they're just bombing everyone and anyone, to the extent that israel has bombed their own ground soldiers by mistake, and this has happened several times.

          • fredblogs on 24/01/2024 - 12:22
            +1

            @johnfuller: Hamas can make it stop by giving up the hostages and surrendering. Why do they not do that? I'll tell you why, because they don't give af about civilians dying for them.

          • trapper on 24/01/2024 - 13:40
            +2

            @johnfuller: Losing a war sucks. So don't start a war your clearly going to lose.

            Hamas should offer unconditional surrender, it's the only way out really.

            • johnfuller on 24/01/2024 - 13:47
              -1

              @trapper: it wasnt a war to start, israel has been killing palestinians for 75 years .. hamas is a resistance against the oppression, if someone wants to steal your house and authorities dont help, will you take matters into your own hand?

              • trapper on 24/01/2024 - 13:52
                -1

                @johnfuller: If someone 'steals my house', I'm not going to head over and murder his wife and baby…

                • johnfuller on 24/01/2024 - 13:57
                  -2

                  @trapper: no one will murder anyone unless they are provoked, you do realise palestinians are having their women raped by settlers, idf soldiers, thats usually how it goes.. someone oppresses you, and you attack back, they call it a resistance, but your media call it terrorism.

                  • trapper on 24/01/2024 - 14:10
                    +1

                    @johnfuller: Murdering a baby is ok if you're provoked?

                    These disturbing notions arise from a society irreparably flawed and rotten at its very core.

                    • johnfuller on 24/01/2024 - 14:22
                      -2

                      @trapper: who murdered a baby? israelis already debunked that oct7 myth

                      • trapper on 24/01/2024 - 14:43

                        @johnfuller: The fact that people with your mindset exist is genuinely disturbing.

                        • johnfuller on 24/01/2024 - 14:51
                          -2

                          @trapper: the fact that you keep talking about a baby murdered that doesnt exist is concerning, you do know that IDF shelled the settlers house knowing it was full of israelis, but they only did it because they knew there was 1 hamas in there? all israeli settlers killed just to kill 1 hamas .. the hamas member didnt even kill them, people that came across hamas that day were told they wouldnt be harmed, did you know that idf helicopter shot at their own people at the party that hamas came to?

                          • fredblogs on 24/01/2024 - 19:20

                            @johnfuller: Why are you more concerned with IDF killing a few of their own by mistake rather than Hamas killing 1200 Israelis, including some babies, intentionally?

                            • johnfuller on 25/01/2024 - 08:31

                              @fredblogs: i dont care about idf killing their own by mistake, it just goes to show you how careless they are and they are just bombing at random, when i told you about the oct7 "baby killer" myth you didnt say anything back because you know its not a fact and you cant prove hamas did it because it wasnt hamas, it was IDF shelling the homes thats why the numbers are so high, israel shelled many homes where 'hamas' entered..

                              not once have you mentioned the killing of the 35,000 innocent palestinians just goes to show how much you care about human life

                              • trapper on 25/01/2024 - 12:43

                                @johnfuller: Probably because you're delusional and a liar.

                                The youngest victim was 10-month-old Mila Cohen, shot and killed at Kibbutz Beeri.

                                • johnfuller on 25/01/2024 - 13:57
                                  -2

                                  @trapper: your not very smart. israel is on trial for genocide and many countries are against them, and you tell me they aren't committing genocide, i wonder who is the liar ?

      • baldur on 12/10/2023 - 20:40

        What?

        • Ade99 on 13/10/2023 - 08:07

          Mobile towers in Israel near the border will probably have some coverage into Gaza . Any way I think the number of land lines will be small with a high penetration of mobiles, possibly with Israel numbers by those in Gaza

          • GG57 on 13/10/2023 - 10:16
            +1

            @Ade99: How will they be recharging their mobile phones?

          • johnfuller on 25/01/2024 - 09:12

            @Ade99: incorrect, they connect to palestinian mobile telecom towers, not israeli .. last time telecom was hit, palestinians were able to fix their own network .. the esims they are using to get content out are actually connecting to egypt telecom mobile towers

    • belongsinforums on 12/10/2023 - 18:39
      +33

      God is on one of their sides so it's possible

      • seamonkey on 12/10/2023 - 18:51
        +44

        Religion has been such a comfort there for centuries.

        • MrThing on 12/10/2023 - 19:56
          +10

          makes me so comfortable to be wrapped up in my 1200 page fantasy novel

          • nathand on 13/10/2023 - 06:30
            +3

            @MrThing: The Old Testament says that the Israelites took the land from the Canaanites, it was occupied before they got there.

            In their own book they were the invaders.

            • MrThing on 13/10/2023 - 07:10
              -2

              @nathand: The old testament fantasy novel right?

              • nathand on 13/10/2023 - 14:18
                +1

                @MrThing: Exactly and even by their own fantasy novel they are the invaders.

            • fredblogs on 13/10/2023 - 19:06

              @nathand: Do you think they should give it back to the Canaanites?

            • Hi Hi Hi on 13/10/2023 - 21:54
              +1

              @nathand: Was your history taught by a physical education teacher? During the British mandate, the Palestinian territories themselves were not sovereign. After the establishment of the United Nations, this land was allocated to both Israel and Palestine. At that time, Israel only possessed a quarter of the region. However, on the day of Israel's founding, it was attacked by surrounding countries. In four out of five Middle East wars, Palestinians initiated hostilities, engaging in terrorist acts, hiding in schools and hospitals, using children as shields – a group of cowards. After accepting so many Syrian refugees in Europe, now your children no longer have security. Thieves and robbers are rampant.

              • RecklessMonkeys on 14/10/2023 - 10:45
                +4

                @Hi Hi Hi: Is that the same United Nations that have repeatedly condemned the Israeli government for the illegal occupation of Palestinian territories and war crimes?

                Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

                • Hi Hi Hi on 14/10/2023 - 15:17
                  -1

                  @RecklessMonkeys: In the five Middle East wars, who initiated the wars each time, Israel or Palestine and other Middle Eastern countries? The United Nations has long lost credibility; even authoritarian states like China and Russia are permanent members. Does the UN still have credibility? Look at the Human Rights Council now, filled with the world's least democratic and poorest human rights record countries. Wake up; if you provoke and get hit, it's not because you're weak but because you're a thug.

                  • RecklessMonkeys on 14/10/2023 - 16:09
                    +7

                    @Hi Hi Hi:

                    United Nations has long lost credibility

                    They lost credibility when they waved through the creation of a state in the middle of Palestine and dispossessed the people who were already living there.

                    Prior to that, the Zionists, not satisfied with displacing the locals, engaged in terrorism to get rid of the British.

                    Israel has a clear responsibility to protect civilians in Gaza. That would not include leveling whole buildings and neighborhoods, destroying ambulances and depriving 2 million people of food, water and medicine. What Hamas did was abhorrent. And what the Israeli government doing is just as bad.

                    • Hi Hi Hi on 14/10/2023 - 18:25
                      -6

                      @RecklessMonkeys: You repeatedly accuse me of being a Jewish nationalist, but I believe the establishment of Israel has not brought any disaster to the world. Instead, I would consider you a victim of the anti-Semitic propaganda that emerged in 1903, namely the book "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," concocted by Russians to tarnish Jews. This book portrayed Jews as an evil race manipulating the world through media and bankers and was later used by Hitler as a textbook to promote Jewish conspiracy theories.

                      Almost all your negative impressions now are based on the accounts in this book.

                      Jews did not seize land from the Palestinians. The Palestinian territories were unclaimed before 1947, with no governing body or jurisdiction. While there were Palestinians in the area, there was no organized government exercising authority over the land.

                      Israelis prioritize the protection of their citizens. In Gaza, some Palestinians, particularly extremists like Hamas, control the region. If certain civilians sympathize with or support such a terrorist organization, how can you demand that Israelis protect them while those civilians refuse to distance themselves from terrorism? It's akin to asking the Allies to protect civilians controlled by the Nazis or Japanese militarists during World War II.

                      I recommend reading Dante's Inferno. To borrow a line from Dante: "The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."

                      • RecklessMonkeys on 14/10/2023 - 20:32
                        +12

                        @Hi Hi Hi: I've not accused you of anything. Who you identify as is a matter for you.

                        And here we go with the "anti-semitism" of anyone who criticizes the Israeli government.

                        My negative impressions are based on history, not upon a book I've never read.

                        My other impression is that everything you've stated is spin.

                        You'd be well aware of the mass immigration into the region. Those poor souls had to go somewhere - and they did - Palestine. People don't call themselves Palestinian for nothing, do they?

                        Prior to Israel materializing, it was governed by the British, who screwed things up royally. Many diverse cultures co-existed in the region prior to the British.

                        It's akin to asking the Allies to protect civilians controlled by the Nazis

                        You mean like all those concentration camps and things? Of course they tried. You just compared Israel to the Nazis. Think about that for a moment.

                        You finish with the fallacy that this is all black or white. The situation requires that the world calls out war crimes in the hope that more may be prevented. This includes Israel being its own worst enemy.

                        Speaking of The Divine Comedy, though, you should watch the movie Seven.

                        The provocation of a character into committing wrath is applicable to Israel.
                        Actions have consequences.

                        EDIT -

                        I see you've carried on below with more misrepresentations, so that's the end of the exchange.
                        I refer you back to what I've already written. And I'll just add that two wrongs don't make a right.

                        • Hi Hi Hi on 14/10/2023 - 21:58
                          -1

                          @RecklessMonkeys: I don't see any issue with the British mandate in the Palestinian territories. If you have an understanding of history, please present your arguments and provide evidence to support your points. Also, please do not misinterpret others' intentions; I stated that Hamas is a terrorist organization, not Israel. I did not equate Israel to the Nazis. If you accuse me of making false statements, please provide evidence rather than resorting to angry personal attacks. That's a rather low approach.

                    • Hi Hi Hi on 14/10/2023 - 18:56
                      -1

                      @RecklessMonkeys: This conflict is not between Israel and all Palestinians but specifically between Israel and Hamas. Other Arab nations in the Middle East, including Palestinians in the West Bank, are condemning Hamas. How can you muddy the waters here and absolve terrorists of responsibility? Additionally, since Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip, there hasn't been a single democratic election; it's been under absolute terrorist rule. Are you excusing Hamas for this?

                    • Hi Hi Hi on 14/10/2023 - 19:08

                      @RecklessMonkeys: Moreover, you also fail to distinguish between terrorism and conventional warfare. While war inevitably leads to civilian casualties, terrorist acts are undeclared wars specifically targeting civilians – precisely the actions of Hamas. Look at this recent instance: Hamas not only indiscriminately slaughters civilians but also proudly kidnaps civilians from other nations, leveraging this as a threat to the international community. How confused must your mind be to engage in such moral relativism?

            • AEKaBeer on 24/10/2023 - 06:38

              @nathand: For those who don't know, the Canaanites are the Lebanese.

            • RTX9090Ti on 24/10/2023 - 19:54

              @nathand: so it should be Canaanites Republic then? where are they?

          • shroomish on 13/10/2023 - 09:30
            +1

            @MrThing: the idiosyncrasies of the isreal-palestine conflict were lost in time as the world slowly graduated into warhammer 40k

        • Trishool on 12/10/2023 - 21:08

          Yes with all the wars over those centuries, it must be so comforting.

        • 1st-Amendment on 13/10/2023 - 08:48
          +1

          Religion has been such a comfort there for centuries.

          Multiculturism is action!

        • navman on 13/10/2023 - 08:50
          +16

          Sure man, blame it on religion when it was the British (with the backing of every western nation) who forced the Palestinians to give up their land after WW2, and they've been losing more and more land ever since.

            • poxy001 on 13/10/2023 - 10:15
              +2

              @seamonkey: Widely reject hamas? 52% support them in Gaza. 10% in west bank. look it up.

            • navman on 13/10/2023 - 10:48
              +17

              @seamonkey: You are entitled to your opinions about religion. But take that out of the Palestine conflict for a moment. Do you think it is fair for a nation who has been there for centuries, to give up their land to whomever their colonizers want? How would you feel if all the major powers in the world today forced Australia to give up land to the Chinese and create a "two state solution". Or the Ukrainians? Imagine if foreign powers came and forced YOU and your family out of your home and into an open air prison like Gaza.

              Hamas is a reaction to decades of that and more, and quite understandable tbh.

          • bargaino on 13/10/2023 - 10:56

            @navman: Oh thanks navman. Nobody ever explained it that way before. I had no idea it was so simple!

      • mountaineer on 12/10/2023 - 18:53
        +29

        God of wars

      • arcticmonkey on 12/10/2023 - 21:58
        +2

        If God is real, why are these things happening?

        • BusMan247 on 12/10/2023 - 23:52
          -1

          Faith in god, is only to help you on the journey. Shit can get crazy. The bible doesn’t promise you ice cream and sleep.

          • 1st-Amendment on 13/10/2023 - 08:48
            +7

            @BusMan247:

            The bible doesn’t promise you ice cream and sleep.

            5 people negged you because they wanted ice cream and sleep

        • Associatedozmma @ Telstra on 13/10/2023 - 12:39
          +1

          This video might help.
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifllgTA2pmY

        • jonathonsunshine on 13/10/2023 - 13:13

          There's a very good explanation for pretty much everything happening in the world.

          Good is real. But he hate us.

          (Stolen quote, forgot from where)

      • VBO on 12/10/2023 - 22:07
        +3

        Both sides believe in the same god.

          • NocturalSquirrel on 12/10/2023 - 23:31
            +5

            @Iwantthatbargain: Nah, Allah and the Jewish God are the same… https://theconversation.com/in-spite-of-their-differences-je….

          • dyziplen on 13/10/2023 - 00:22
            +2

            @Iwantthatbargain: Yeah, neither of them wields Thunder!

          • OpticalCog on 13/10/2023 - 00:28
            +7

            @Iwantthatbargain: Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all Abrahamic religions - they believe in the same God and their respective holy books (Torah, Bible (Old testament) and Quran) contain the same stories with slight variations.
            Ironically in the Quran a discussion between Allah and Moses claims that Allah will forbid the Jewish peeps from the land of Isreal for forty years - which has obviously long since passed. So despite the Quran itself acknowledging the Jewish people as the Children of Isreal they continue to relentlessly attack them for residing in their lands. The reality is religion has nothing to do with the war and they are just using it to try and justify their disgusting actions.

            • nathand on 13/10/2023 - 06:34
              +5

              @OpticalCog: Ok, well in the Old Testament it says the land was occupied by the Canaanites and Israelites justified their invasion by being promised by their God. It’s where the term ‘the Promised Land’ comes from. So in the Jewish book they were invaders on the land.

              Religion is dumb.

              • gto21 on 13/10/2023 - 06:47

                @nathand: Does that justify Hamas's desire to take over Israel?

            • subwoofer on 13/10/2023 - 19:07
              +1

              @OpticalCog: Deny? It's the Isrealis that ethnically cleansed the Palestinians, they claim it's theirs and nobody's else. When it was under Moslem rule, all three religions co-existed and lived peacefully.

          • Wilson Wallace on 13/10/2023 - 02:15

            @Iwantthatbargain: The Jewish religion ended when Christ arrived.

          • 1st-Amendment on 13/10/2023 - 08:50
            +4

            @Iwantthatbargain:

            No, the Jewish God and Allah are not same.

            Ignorance level 100

            Allah is juts Arabic for God. Same guy, just different views on Jesus and other things

            • Iwantthatbargain on 13/10/2023 - 11:54
              -3

              @1st-Amendment: Ignorance level 101

              The attributes of Allah (as described in Islamic scriptures) differ from the attributes of Jewish/Christian God Yahweh (as described in Judeo Christian scriptures). Trinity is the biggest example. So they can't be same.

              • 1st-Amendment on 13/10/2023 - 12:19
                +3

                @Iwantthatbargain:

                The attributes of Allah

                Lol…

                So you completely ignored the part where I said ' just different views on Jesus and other things'

                If you had asked even a single Muslim about this you wouldn't like a complete doofus right now. It's the same God, they have different interpretations on some of the details.

                Ignorance level infinity…

        • belongsinforums on 13/10/2023 - 00:10
          -4

          beg to differ. one god REALLY hates gays. the other, kinda sorta hates gays

        • Ade99 on 13/10/2023 - 08:09

          there starts the problem.

      • garage sale on 13/10/2023 - 06:44

        which god ?

      • jimmy c on 13/10/2023 - 12:08
        +1

        It seems God has granted "Free Calls to Israel" instead of granting "calls to free Palestine?"

    • notJV on 12/10/2023 - 18:39
      +3

      Well, as long as you are calling your family and friends in Israel…

    • Outrageous on 12/10/2023 - 18:41
      +2

      Generators and satellite phones ?

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