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Latest Update:
Tuesday morning, 2/1/2012
Both news sites are now online.

-Palestine Crisis map admin



Jerusalem, 1/31/2012, 9:32 am

Maan and Wafa news sites are both down right now.

See attached screen shots from:

http://www.maannews.net/eng/Status_SystemDown.aspx

http://english.wafa.ps/

(http://www.maannews.net/arb/Default.aspx and wafa.ps are also down)


Update: 1/31/2012 11:30 pm
http://www.maannews.net is back online.
Wafa.ps is still down.

2/1/2012, 4am Wafa.ps still down


Reported by Palestine Crisis Map admin

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Meanwhile, this news report filed by imemc.org, 1/31/2012, 23:23

Ma'an & WAFA News Sites Interrupted by Hackers

by Circarre Parrhesia - IMEMC & Agencies Report post

Both the Ma’an News Agency and the Palestinian Authority’s news service, WAFA, have, on Tuesday, suffered from repeated attacks by hackers leading to periods where their news sites have been inaccessible.

Comments from the agencies, to the Associated Press, stated that they were unaware as to the source of the attacks, but they do follow recent digital scuffles between Israeli hackers and those that support Palestinians.

On Sunday the website of the National Assembly of Palestinian Martyrs Families, based in Ramallah, was hacked, and prior to this hackers had brought down websites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, Israel's El-Al International Airlines, and the Hebrew language version of Israeli daily Ha’aretz.