In a watered-down version of his report published by the NY Times, Bergman implicitly ties the attack to the Shin Bet, noting that while foreign clients of NSO may not target Israeli or Palestinian phone numbers, Israeli government agencies (such as the Shin Bet) may do so.Īmira Hass explicitly attributes the attacks to the Shin Bet. Though he did not refer to “Palestinian” human rights activists, he might just as well have. The Frontline Defenders report includes a detailed timeline that not only offers overwhelming evidence that the Shin Bet is using Pegasus to penetrate the phones of human rights activists, but a much broader conspiracy. But Bergman offers strong evidence that it was the Shin Bet: Until now, media reports did not specify which NSO client targeted the Palestinian human rights workers.
The US intended this to be a shot across Israel’s bow. Commerce Department decision is part of a campaign by the Biden administration to signal its overall disapproval of Israeli government policy toward the Palestinians. Ronen Bergman just published a Ynet report on the incident which reveals critical hitherto unknown details about both the Pegasus hack and Israel’s response to the US blacklisting of NSO. The effort seems to have failed as none of the material in the reports appears to come from the compromised phones. Apparently knowing this, the Israelis sought to uncover further information from the hacked staff members telephone communications, which might compromise them and their employers. Recent reports published by The Intercept and 972 Magazine indicated that a dossier compiled by Israeli intelligence and circulated to the Biden administration in an attempt to justify the terror designation, did not contain any specific evidence to support these charges. It sought compromising information which would buttress the government’s claim that they are affiliates of the banned Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and funnel donations to fund its terror activities. Apparently, the hack was part of this campaign to criminalize the advocacy efforts of the Palestinian NGOs. Please give it a read.įrontline Defenders published a major report that six Palestinian human rights staff members working for NGOs designated by the Israeli defense ministry as terror groups, were hacked by NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. Latest: Middle East Eye published my new piece on the failure of Israel’s cyber-sabotage campaign against Iran.
Israeli protest against NSO Group (NIr Elias/Reuters)
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