Israeli news sites hacked with Iran on anniversary of Soleimani assassination
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- At least two Israeli news sites were reportedly hacked earlier on Monday with warnings from an Iranian propaganda video linked to the second anniversary of the assassination of top general Qassem Soleimani.
The website of The Jerusalem Post showed a scene from an Iranian missile drill last month in which Tehran destroyed a mock-up of Israel’s nuclear reactor of Dimona.
The rocket appears in the picture to be fired from the iconic ring of its highest ranking general, Soleimani, with the caption: “We are close to you where you do not think about it,” in English and Hebrew, according to The Times of Israel.
The Twitter account of the Israeli Maariv newspaper, which has the same owners as the English-language Post, briefly held the same message, but soon took it down.
“We are aware of the apparent hacking of our website, alongside a direct threat of Israel. We are working to resolve the issue,” the Post tweeted, and the site was back online about two hours after the hack, The Times of Israel said.
Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Force and responsible for shaping Iran’s foreign policy throughout the Middle East, was killed in a US drone strike ordered by Trump, shortly after arriving at Baghdad airport in January 2020.
The missiles also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).
