Nathan Shachar: Israel flygbombade Hamas headquarters for cyber warfare

According to Israel was the attack on the five-story structure in Gaza city, in response to a cyber attack from Hamas. Much, however, suggests that the goal – as with all other goals – selected in advance, but that the israeli militärtalesmannen prefer to present the action as a försvarsåtgärd. Cyber attacks from Hamas is going on the constantly.

, with the highly developed offensive and defensive capabilities. Israeli värnpliktigas drömplacering is no longer the air force or attackdykarna, but the ”unit 8200”, signalunderrättelsetjänsten. Many of these will be after the completion of service contractors and a number of their companies are big in the Silicon Valley, California. Another, NSO in Herzliya in Israel, is believed to have delivered the software, the saudi intelligence service used to spy on journalist Jamal Khashoggi, before you murdered him.

Hamas does not have Israel's resources, but its experts have been trained by Iran and perhaps also in Russia. One approach is to send the pictures of beautiful, half-naked girls to israeli soldiers, establish contact and gain visibility into their mobile phones. In Israel, radio and tv be warned the soldiers all the time for this type of baits. The pioneer in this type of terrorism is Amna Muna, who in 2001 made contact with an israeli teen on the chattforumet ICQ. She lured him to Ramallah where he was murdered. She was hailed recently as a national hero by president Mahmud Abbas.

the Hamas capacity for cyber warfare must be taken with a pinch of salt. First and foremost, the building was destroyed after a so-called ”outreach”, where potential victims varskos in good time via the phone – also the one aspect of Israel's cyberkontroll. Because offensive electronic capabilities is primarily a question of expertise and software, so one must assume that Hamas relatively soon is back in cyberspace. It is not certain that the israelis, who are staking so much on to intercept his enemies, is interested in silencing them.

More significantly for the palestinians ' part, and it looks to have got them with a cease-fire, Israel resumed punktattackerna against individual palestinians. On Sunday evening killed Hamed al-Khudry, which was responsible for the transfers of iranian money to Hamas and to Islamic jihad. Al-Khudrys car was hit by a homing missile in Gaza city. Several other people, most andraplansfigurer from the Islamic jihad, were also killed. The message is that if raketelden continues so will Israel move to the ”elimination” of leaders, as it did during the fighting in 2004.

turning up the volume. Partly by using more powerful warheads, such as those that can destroy an apartment building, but also by directing its missiles at Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Hamas, the most dangerous missiles are well hidden and likely to be stored in places Israel does not know. They will not be used until the palestinian leadership in Gaza feel about themselves and their regime is threatened.

Both parties are keen to return to normal life as soon as possible. The month of ramadan will start on Monday, Israel's independence day is celebrated on Wednesday and next week will be determined Eurovisionstävlingen in Tel Aviv. Both from his own party and from opposition leader Benny Ganz hear prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the usual protests that Israel capitulated to Hamas and shared out protection money (the promised dollarmiljonerna from Qatar) to the movement. Bosättarledaren Bezalel Smotrich, who propsar on justitieministerposten, recommend to the Gaza strip ”emptied of its arabs” and to those ”sent to other countries”.

Over the weekend, fired by Hamas and Islamic jihad up to 700 missiles at israeli targets and the israeli air force attacked the 320 targets in the Gaza strip. 25 palestinians and four israelis have lost their lives.

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