Claiming 'hacking' of network, Lebanon condemns IDF warnings to its civilians

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/claiming-hacking-of-network-lebanon-condemns-idf-warnings-to-its-civilians/

By TOI Staff
The Times of Israel
December 7, 2018

Lebanon's ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday accused Israel of 
hacking into the country's telephone network to warn southern Lebanese 
citizens of imminent Israeli military activity on the border, in what was 
described by Beirut as "extremely serious acts."

Amal Mudallali's letter to the United Nations Security Council came days 
after Israel launched Operation Northern Shield to dismantle cross-border 
attack tunnels it says were dug by the Hezbollah terror group.

"Lebanon condemns in the strongest possible terms the political and 
diplomatic campaign being waged by Israel against Lebanon, which it fears 
is a prelude to the launch of further attacks," she wrote.

"That campaign is being accompanied by a number of extremely serious acts, 
of which the most recent is that Israel has breached the Lebanese 
communications grid by hacking into the telephone network and sending 
recorded messages to peaceable civilian inhabitants of the southern part 
of the village of Kafr Killa warning them of imminent explosions to take 
place on Lebanese territory that might put their lives at risk," wrote 
Mudallali.

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