Palestine fingers Israel for blasting Gaza off the net
Services wiped out in DDoS attack
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A Palestinian minister is blaming foreign hackers for taking out internet services and servers in the West Bank and Gaza.
Palestinian communications minister Mashur Abu Daqqa blames the Israeli state for what is describes as a coordinated DDoS attack against core communication systems.
“Since this morning all Palestinian IP addresses have come under attack from places across the world,” the minister told AFP on Tuesday. "I think from the manner of the attack and its intensity that there is a state behind it, and it is not spontaneous.
“Israel could be involved as it announced yesterday that it was considering the kind of sanctions it would impose on us.”
The disruption comes a day after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation voted to admit Palestine as a member of the group, a move that went down badly in Israel, the Washington Post adds.
Abu Daqqa said the Palestinian banking system had been isolated from the attack, a claim that is yet to be independently confirmed.
Conflict in cyberspace is one aspect of a propaganda battle that has accompanied the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Routinely this involves defacing websites of one side or the other but sometimes slightly more sophisticated tactics are brought into play. For example, Israeli cyberactivists have invited pro-Israeli surfers to install a tool that attacks websites associated with Hamas in the past. Hamas has controlled Gaza since June 2007. Its rival Fatah controls the West Bank. ®
COMMENTS
Geez, all this panic because they were admitted by UNESCO? Palestine is chock-full of historical sites, many of them biblical and of great importance. It really should not be a big deal except that Israel's current right-wing government consider all the west bank to be part of Israel, and on one hand say "we're open to talks", while continuing to build settlements on land that isn't theirs to build on. All things considered the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank has handled this remarkably well, there haven't been any attacks there in ages (as opposed to the Hamas nutters in the Gaza strip). They're doing Israel's police work for them, and all Israel does is undermine them
RE: How is it
The UN partition plan was accepted by the Jews, it was the Arabs that then tried to steal the bit given to the Jews. The problem for the Arabs was the Jews fought better despite being outnumbered, because they wanted a home, whereas the Arabs already had homes and just wanted the Jews NOT to have a home.
RE: James Micallef
Yeah, but three-quarters of the original pizza was given to the Arabs by us Brits without consulting the Jews. It's called Jordan. The Jews then agreed to accept a small and irregular piece of the remaining slice as decided by the UN, only the Arabs said no pizza for the Jews was their prefered option. Do you understand that? UN makes decision, Jews agree (despite it being much less pizza than they were promised), but Arabs with already more than 85% of the pizza in the bag said "no". I know it's not fashionable to remind the fashionably irate of the historical facts, but then you sound so uneducated it really needs doing.
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