As the violence in the Gaza strip entered its sixth day, the Israeli government counted no fewer than 44 million hacking attempts over the weekend, the most successful of which have come from the leaderless cyber outfit.
Known for their distinctive use of imagery including the Guy Fawkes mask and a logo of a headless, suited man, Anonymous began updating a list of Israeli sites it had defaced or brought offline on Friday.
It is thought as many as 300 were targeted, including the Bank of Jerusalem. Many of the sites had their homepages replaced with messages in support of Hamas and the Palestinians, though all have since returned to normal.
The hackers, who claim to stand for "human rights, justice, and universal equality for the citizens of every nation", started a campaign known as "#OpIsrael" due to a threat by Israel to sever telecommunications in and out of Gaza, and for the air strikes carried out by the Israel Defence Force (IDF) in retaliation for rockets fired by Hamas militants into Southern Israel.
A member of Anonymous wrote on Friday: "[When] the government of Israel publicly threatened to sever all Internet and other telecommunications into and out of Gaza they crossed a line in the sand."
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