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An Israeli boy walks into a bomb shelter in the southern city of Ashkelon January 4, 2009. Israeli troops and tanks split the Gaza Strip and ringed its main city on Sunday in an offensive against Hamas that has killed 500 Palestinians, including a growing number of civilians. Hamas kept up rocket attacks against southern Israel, defying efforts by the Middle East’s most powerful army to achieve Israeli leaders’ declared aim of removing the threat of cross-border salvoes. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL)…read more
Israel supporters respond to the cyber-attacks launched by Islamic hackers through DDoS. A group of students have developed an application that allows Israel sympathizers to use their computer resources and Internet bandwith in order to knock Palestinian websites offline.
The online group calling themselves “Help Israel Win,” is distributing a Trojan-like application that enables them to launch DDoS attacks. Installing this program onto a computer will turn it into a drone, and will place it at the disposal of the hacktivists. What differentiates this tool from regular malware is that the installation is performed voluntarily by individuals who sympathize with Israel’s efforts. …read more
The cyberwar between hackers supporting the Palestinian cause and their Israel sympathizing counter-parts continues. After compromising thousands of Israeli websites, the Jihad attackers have moved on to targeting high profile sites that belong to the U.S. military or NATO.
Four websites belonging to the United States Army’s Military District of Washington (MDW-currently offline), have been defaced by a Turkish hacker affiliated with a group called “Peace Crew.” The attacker, who identified himself as Agd_Scorp, has posted threatening messages in English. “Stop attacks u Israel and USA! You cursed nations! One day Muslims will clean the world from you!,” the pages displayed.…read more
In London on 2nd January people demonstrated outside the Egyptian Embassy to show their disgust at Mubarak’s role in the on-going genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and to demand the opening of the Rafah crossing.
Evidence shows Egypt’s total complicity with Israel on the attack on Gaza. Less than 48 hours before the attack Israeli Foreign Minister Livni met with Mubarak in Cairo to co-ordinate the attack in the hope of finishing off Hamas. Mubarak has sealed the border shut and with helped Israel destroy the tunnels which were a life line to Gaza. Mubarak’s Foreign Minister Abu al-Gheit has even said he will break the bones of any Gazans attempting to escape in to Egypt.…read more
