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Israel’s Jerusalem Post Website Hacked on Soleimani Assassination Anniversary

The illustration showed a bullet-shaped object shooting out of a red ring worn on a finger, an apparent reference to a distinctive ring Soleimani used to wear.
Israel's Jerusalem Post website hacked on Soleimani assassination anniversary
A view of the Jerusalem Post website after it was hacked is shown in this screen grab obtained January 3, 2022. The Jerusalem Post Website/via REUTERS

Reuters

Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper said on Monday its website had been hacked, in what it said was an apparent threat to the country.

Instead of displaying a main news page, the website showed an illustration that appeared to recall top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq on this day in 2020.

The illustration showed a bullet-shaped object shooting out of a red ring worn on a finger, an apparent reference to a distinctive ring Soleimani used to wear.

The Jerusalem Post, an English-language daily, tweeted that it was working to resolve the issue.

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