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2021-11-11 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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PA’s foreign ministry accuses Israel of using NSO’s Pegasus spyware against it
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 ”Pay attention to us!” [IsraelTimes] The Paleostinian Authority foreign ministry says some of its employees’ phones were hacked by Pegasus, a controversial spyware application made by the Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group.
An investigation by the rights groups Front Line Defenders, Citizen Lab and Amnesia Amnesty International alleged on Monday that six Paleostinians had their cellphones hacked by the software. Three of the Paleostinians worked at organizations Israel recently declared to be terror groups, drawing an international outcry.
The Paleostinian rights group al-Haq had previously declared that some foreign ministry civil servants had also been hacked. But the PA body did not comment until today.
"We always expected that our telephones were infiltrated by the occupation authorities and that all we said and sent was listened to and monitored. But now, we have evidence and legal documents that acknowledge the existence of this Israeli intrusion," the foreign ministry says in a statement.
NSO Group activities have sparked controversy in recent months. The company has been dogged by accusations that the Pegasus software was used by dictatorships to track dissidents and human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
activists.
A Palestinian official claimed on Thursday that three Palestinian Authority foreign ministry employees preparing complaints against Israel at the International Criminal Court in The Hague had their phones hacked by Pegasus, a controversial spyware application made by the Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group.
| “It was self defense, yr Honourship — we didn’t bother bugging anyone else.” |
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