#OpSaveGaza: Anonymous Major Cyber-Attack Knocks Israel Offline For Days
#OpSaveGaza has succeeded in keeping major Israeli websites offline for over two days, prompted by Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians. Anonymous has taken credit for the act of defending the people of Palestine from Israel’s crime against humanity, announcing it brought down over a thousand crucial Israeli websites in a huge new coordinated cyber-attack called #OpSaveGaza on 11 July and 17 July.
Some websites, such as the Tel Aviv Police Department‘s online presence, remain offline two days after the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
Numerous Israeli government homepages have been replaced by graphics, slogans, and auto-playing audio files made by AnonGhost, the team of hackers who coordinated the attack.
The official Israeli government jobs website had its homepage replaced by a graphic titled “Akincilar”, Turkish for the Ottoman Empire’s troops.
A message in English and Turkish – presumably by Turkish hackers – accompanied with pictures of Palestinians suffering says:
“The Jerusalem cause is Muslims’ fight of honour” and people who fight for Palestine are “on the side of Allah”.
Another Israeli government website now bears an AnonGhost graphic and lists usernames of 38 hackers.
An audio file auto-plays when the page loads, playing music and a synthesizing a newsreader clip with a message beseeching human rights organizations, hackers and activists to attack Israeli websites to become the “cyber shield, the voice for the forgotten people.”
United States and Israeli intelligence agencies have been attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction.
