Internet hacktivist group Anonymous has declared cyberwar on Israel, posting personal data of five thousand Israeli officials online.

The group used their Anonpaste.me site to address a message to the Israeli government before linking to the page with names, ID numbers and personal emails of 5,000 officials. 

The Facebook page of Israeli Deputy Premier Silvan Shalom, which was changed to include a pro-Palestinian cover photo. His Twitter account also was hacked to include messages calling for an end to the “unjust war and occupation” in Palestine.

The message said: “It has come to our attention that the Israeli government has ignored repeated warnings about the abuse of human rights, shutting down the internet in Israel and mistreating its own citizens and those of its neighboring countries.” 

The group also said “Israeli Gov. this is/will turn into a cyberwar.” 

Earlier, the group hacked over 700 hundred Israeli websites, including the Bank of Jerusalem, the Israeli Defense Ministry, the IDF blog, the President’s official website and many others. 

The country’s finance minister has acknowledged the recent wave of attacks, saying the government is now waging a war on a “second front.”

Over the past four days, Israel has “deflected 44 million cyber-attacks on government websites,” Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz told AP.

Anonymous also hacked into the Facebook and Twitter accounts of Israeli Deputy Premier Silvan Shalom, filling his pages with pro-Palestine status updates.

They then  hijacked Shalom’s Twitter account, posting calls for protest against “unjust war and occupation,” and asking, “Who can bare to see the horror, the deaths of children and innocent people trying to protect their occupied land?”

In one of the group’s Tuesday tweets in the deputy premier’s feed, Anonymous posted, “My heart goes to all those suffering in Palestine. Stop this war now!!! End the occupation.”   

— TAAN, RT