People wait for passengers arriving in near a sign showing landed and cancelled flights at the arrivals hall at Ben Gurion Airport on October 09, 2023 in Lod, Israel. On Saturday, the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched the largest surprise attack from Gaza in a generation, sending thousands of missiles and an unknown number of fighters by land, who shot and kidnapped Israelis in communities near the Gaza border. The attack prompted retaliatory strikes on Gaza and a declaration of war by the Israeli prime minister. (Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
Hamas is also attacking Israel in cyberspace – an online war that threatened the Ben Gurion Airport, Israel’s largest, and is aiming to cripple its hospitals, power plants, and water treatment facilities.
Sometimes Israel responds with real-life bombs to online attacks. Israel launched an airstrike on a building in Gaza that it claimed housed a Hamas cyber unit in 2019.
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