A few days after an anonymous telegram channel called "Open Hands" ("Open Hands" in Hebrew, LS) published a video in which photos and personal documents of Mossad chief David Barnea appeared, claiming that the materials came from his wife's old phone, today (Saturday) were published in the same The latest Barnea tax form channel for 2020.
The documents were accompanied by the caption: "There is probably an old 106 of Ramsad's wife's cell phone!
Are you sending your new documents, Mr. Barnea, on your wife's old cell phone?
Are you sure only the old cell phone was hacked?
Man, did you watch "Tenet" (a science fiction film by director-screenwriter Christopher Nolan, L.S.) these days, Mr. Barnea? "
(Errors in the original, L.S.).
Iranian hackers claim: We broke into the device of Mossad chief Dedi Barnea // Photo: "Open Hands"
Earlier this week, several versions of a video were posted on the channel, with Hebrew, Arabic and English subtitles, featuring personal photos of Barnea, some of which were pasted with masks of costumes for Purim.
The page also published photographs of the head of the Mossad's flight tickets for a family vacation in Copenhagen during Operation Eitan in 2014, a photocopy of his ID card, his and his family's tax documents, and a satellite photo of what was claimed as his private home.
The channel also published a quote from the Koran.
The Prime Minister's Office then stated on behalf of the Mossad: "The materials in question are old and not from the head of the Mossad's telephone."
Publishing the photo of Dedi Barnea that went up to the Telegram,
At present, no one has taken responsibility for the publication, but it should be seen against the background of the escalation in the open conflict between Israel and Iran in recent days, at a time when the nuclear talks in Vienna are making significant progress.
A few days ago, a report was published in the Haaretz newspaper, based on an information channel on the Lebanese channel Al-Miyadin, that in the airstrike that took place in Iran last month, Iran's drone system was heavily damaged. It is estimated that hundreds of Iranian drones were destroyed in that attack. in different sizes.
Until recent days the two countries did not address the incident.
Iranian drones at a base in the south of the country (archive), Photo: Gettyimages
It can be assumed that if Israel was indeed the one that carried out the attack, it was a complex operation in which the Mossad also participated, on which, as stated, Commander Barnea.
Al-Mayadin also reported that the attack attributed to Israel was the cause of the Iranian rocket attack on the city of Arbil in the Kurdish region of Iraq earlier this week, when Iran claimed to have launched 12 rockets and hit "secret Israeli bases."
Following the report, the Iranians claimed that they had thwarted an attempt by the Israeli institution to sabotage the nuclear facility in Purdue, and arrested several suspects in the act.
Subsequently, a widespread cyber attack was reported in Israel against many Israeli government websites, even in this case without taking responsibility.
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