The headline is clickbait since you don’t even need to get past the paywall to see that “The website does not appear to be linked to Hamas”. That domain is registered under Wix.Com Ltd., an Israeli software company. There is no hacking involved here, just an Israeli site masquerading as a Hamas site gloating with attrocities.
I think that this is part of a propaganda effort by Israel to capitalize on the October 7th attacks by maximising the emotional response from it. It’s all in English, so clearly directed at western audiences. It’s also quite on the nose with the caricaturistic portrayal of evil terrorist baby killers who do not understand PR.
If an actual Hamas site was hacked by Israelis, I’d expect the hackers to flaunt their victory by posting something the islamists clearly wouldn’t (like idk pictures of
bacon,a woman’s ankles or maybe some dudes kissing).As for an actual Hamas site, I’d expect a lot less displays of gore caused by Hamas and a lot more displays of gore caused by the IDF.
I won’t claim that you’re wrong but I wanted to let you know that the Jewish religion also bans the consumption of pork so that part was a bit off.
A good point
The website does not appear to be linked to Hamas
Buying a domain = “hacking” now?
Putting incitement to genocide online is a heinous thing to do even if you’re making it about genociding your own ethnic group.
Israel didnt hijack that URL, they created it, and its hosted on wix.com, an Israeli company. And the site is FULL of malware.
Let’s not forget that the IDF also hosts Unit 8200, where some of the world’s most insanely adept tech nerds are practically bred like Spartans…
It’s futile. Israel lost the PR war. They took the bait and Hamas ran with it.
God damn, what a fucking statement. That footage of the music festival was brutal. Israel isn’t without its major problems, but the solution here is not to see who can commit the most human rights violations.
Edit: to put it a different way, if you want to see who has the moral high ground here, you have to look for who has dug the shallowest pit of immorality.
The only “high-ground” in this are the piles of bones on top of which both sides are, and whilst Israel definitelly has a bigger pile (though given the much larger proportion of child corpses in their bone pile, it’s probably not as tall as one would expect), had Hamas had the same means and “unwavering support” from the likes of Germany, the UK and the US as Israel it too would have a much higher pile.
Also as others have pointed out, it’s an IDF site, not a Hamas site, as it’s an israeli company that owns the “hamas.com” domain name, so if it’s a statement from anybody, it’s from IDF.
Nobody really has the moral high ground here. You can argue that what they’re doing is necessary or justified but I think you’d be hard pressed to argue that it’s right or moral.
