{"id":23131,"date":"2012-11-19T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=23131"},"modified":"2012-11-26T10:49:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T10:49:44","slug":"anonymous-downs-hundreds-of-israeli-sites-over-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/11\/anonymous-downs-hundreds-of-israeli-sites-over-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous Downs Hundreds of Israeli Sites over Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Online activist group Anonymous said on Saturday [17 Nov 2012] it had downed the websites of dozens of Israeli state agencies and a top bank in protest over the Jewish state\u2019s deadly air assault on Gaza.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The hackers said their operation \u201cOpIsrael\u201d had either damaged or completely\u00a0erased the sites of more than 650 private and public institutions that included\u00a0the Bank of Jerusalem &#8212; one of the country\u2019s main finance houses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBank of Jerusalem database has been deleted,\u201d the group said in a tweet next to a link to the lender\u2019s non-functioning website.<\/p>\n<p>It also claimed to have briefly downed the foreign ministry website in protest over an alleged Israeli threat to cut the Gaza Strip\u2019s Internet communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor far too 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 \u2018Occupied Territories\u2019 by the Israel Defence Force,\u201d Anonymous said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when the government of Israel publicly threatened to sever all Internet\u00a0 and other telecommunications into and out of Gaza they crossed a line in the sand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group threatened Israel with the \u201cunbridled wrath of Anonymous\u201d if it went ahead with the Internet cable cut.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s foreign ministry was not immediately available for comment on the threat, and no reference to the hack attack was made in official government statements on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has been pressing an intense aerial assault over the coastal Palestinian enclave as militants from the ruling Hamas movement and other groups have fired hundreds of rockets over the border.<\/p>\n<p>The intensifying stand-off has also played out over the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Militants have used social networking sites such as Twitter to promise new attacks and take credit for specific strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Israeli defence officials have used Twitter to provide real-time warnings about incoming rockets and also make direct threats against Hamas.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen.co.za\/citizen\/content\/en\/citizen\/opinion-leaders?oid=354423&amp;sn=Detail&amp;pid=146826&amp;Anonymous-downs-hundreds-of-Israeli-sites-over-Gaza\" >Go to Original \u2013 citizen.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online activist group Anonymous said on Saturday [17 Nov 2012] that their operation \u201cOpIsrael\u201d had either damaged or completely erased the sites of more than 650 private and public institutions that included the Bank of Jerusalem &#8212; one of the country\u2019s main finance houses. \u201cBank of Jerusalem database has been deleted,\u201d the group said in a tweet next to a link to the lender\u2019s non-functioning website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}