Hackers targeted the website of an Israeli newspaper on Monday, the anniversary of the 2020 killing of a top Iranian general, replacing its content with an image threatening a site associated with Israel's undeclared nuclear weapons program.
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No group immediately claimed responsibility for the hacking. The image posted on the Jerusalem Post's website depicted a missile coming down from a fist bearing a ring long associated with Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian general that headed the Quds Force and was killed by a US drone strike in Iraq two years ago. The illustration, bearing the caption "we are close to you where you do not think about it" in English and Hebrew, shows the missile destroying the Negev Nuclear Research Center in southern Israel.
The Jerusalem Post's Twitter account was also hacked, as was the account of Israeli daily Maariv.
The tweet with the photo on Maariv's Twitter account has since been removed. It included an illustration of Soleimani and Popular Mobilization Forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was assassinated alongside Soleimani.
