#OpIsrael: Anonymous Hacked Israeli Defense Force & 40 Other Israeli Sites While Protesting Gaza Attacks
So far the world have seen an instance of cruelty and inhumane of Israeli army, where the people of Gaza have been tortured brutally. The peace loving people across the world have already stood against this relentless practice. Earlier we have seen many times, where hackers around the globe
protested against this implacable practice of Israeli defense. But so far it was mainly hacker collective from
Pakistan who was mainly fighting for the Gaza cause, dubbed
Freedom For Palestine (#OpFreePalestine), yesterday the dangerous & mysterious hacktivist group
Anonymous joined the campaign. This Thursday Anonymous released a
manifesto, vowing revenge on Israel for an escalating offensive in Gaza. The group's new campaign named
Operation Isreal (#OpIsrael) comes after rumors that Israeli forces would shut down telecommunications in Gaza, including the internet. OpIsrael started with a series of attacks where Anonymous went on a spree of website defacement and takedown, while calling their members to flood forty sites with junk web traffic designed to knock them offline and defacing websites including the privacy firm Israeli Security Academy and a blog the group described as belonging to the
Israeli Defense Forces.
“We Anonymous will not sit back and watch a cowardly Zionist State demolish innocent people’s lives.” reads one message posted to a defaced site, along with an image of smoke rising over what appears to be a Palestinian city.
Another message on a hacked site
attributes the attack to Pakistani Anonymous hackers: “The people of
Pakistan are always supporting the brave people of Gaza, we love you!”
Here we would like to remind you, that in 2011, members of Anonymous threatened to engage cyber attack against Israel, while protesting the same issue. That time also Israeli Defense Force was shutdown by Anon.
Anonymous Twitter accounts provided links to what they described as an
Anonymous Gaza Care Package
with tools for staying online if Israel cuts Internet service the Gaza
Strip during its military action. Another hacker group, Telecomix,
provided its own detailed instructions in English and Arabic for using dial-up connections, a technique it first suggested during the Egyptian Internet outage surrounding the Arab Spring protests there last year.
Operation Israel (Full Press Release of Anonymous):-
"Greetings World --
For far to long, Anonymous has stood by with the rest of the world and watched in despair the barbaric, brutal and despicable treatment of the Palestinian people in the so called "Occupied Territories" by the Israel Defense Force. Like so many around the globe, we have felt helpless in the face of such implacable evil. And today's insane attack and threatened invasion of Gaza was more of the same.
But when the government of Israel publicly threatened to sever all Internet and other telecommunications into and out of Gaza they crossed a line in the sand. As the former dictator of Egypt Mubarack learned the hard way - we are ANONYMOUS and NO ONE shuts down the Internet on our watch. To the IDF and government of Israel we issue you this warning only once. Do NOT shut down the Internet into the "Occupied Territories", and cease and desist from your terror upon the innocent people of Palestine or you will know the full and unbridled wrath of Anonymous. And like all the other evil governments that have faced our rage, you will NOT survive it unscathed.
To the people of Gaza and the "Occupied Territories", know that Anonymous stands with you in this fight. We will do everything in our power to hinder the evil forces of the IDF arrayed against you. We will use all our resources to make certain you stay connected to the Internet and remain able to transmit your experiences to the world. As a start, we have put together the Anonymous Gaza Care Package - http://bit.ly/XH87C5 - which contains instructions in Arabic and English that can aid you in the event the Israel government makes good on it's threat to attempt to sever your Internet connection. It also contains useful information on evading IDF surveillance, and some basic first aid and other useful information. We will continue to expand and improve this document in the coming days, and we will transmit it to you by every means at our disposal. We encourage you to download this package, and to share it with your fellow Palestinians to the best of your ability.
We will be with you. No matter how dark it may seem, no matter how alone and abandoned you may feel - know that tens of thousands of us in Anonymous are with you and working tirelessly around the clock to bring you every aid and assistance that we can.
We Are Anonymous
We Are Everywhere
We Are Legion
We Do Not Forgive
We Do Not Forget
To the oppressors of the innocent Palestinian people, it is to late to EXPECT US"
-Source (Forbes)
