Palestinians seek UN inquiry into Internet attack
A Palestinian minister said on Wednesday he would seek an international inquiry into a hacking attack that took down Internet service across the West Bank and Gaza.
Communications minister Mashur Abu Daqqa said the Palestinians would ask the International Telecommunications Union, a UN agency, to officially investigate Tuesday's cyber-attack. "We will begin today our communications with the ITU to request an international committee to investigate the facts," he told a news conference.
On Tuesday, Internet service across the Palestinian territories went down after a coordinated hacking attack against Palestinian servers. Abu Daqqa said on Tuesday that the attack was "organised" and hinted that it could have been orchestrated by Israel in response to the Palestinians' winning full membership of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
