Hamas Sends Threatening Texts to Israeli Cell Phones
Image by Getty Images
Israel cell phone owners received threatening text messages from Hamas.
The text messages were delivered on Saturday evening, and threatened rocket attacks and kidnapping.
“A warning to Zionists. Kassam rockets are waiting with you. If you want the life then leave our country,” said one message in Hebrew.
“Al-qassam has chosen you to be The next Shalite … Be Ready,” read another message, referring to former captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was kidnapped in 2006 by Hamas and freed five years later in a lopsided prisoner exchange.
There were four messages in all. It was not possible to call back the numbers that the messages were sent from.
The messages also were sent to government ministers and their spokespeople, as well as some journalists, according to Ynet.
The messages were sent on the tenth anniversary of Israel’s assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
Why I became the Forward’s editor-in-chief
You are surely a friend of the Forward if you’re reading this. And so it’s with excitement and awe — of all that the Forward is, was, and will be — that I introduce myself to you as the Forward’s newest editor-in-chief.
And what a time to step into the leadership of this storied Jewish institution! For 129 years, the Forward has shaped and told the American Jewish story. I’m stepping in at an intense time for Jews the world over. We urgently need the Forward’s courageous, unflinching journalism — not only as a source of reliable information, but to provide inspiration, healing and hope.
— Alyssa Katz, editor-in-chief
Support our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.
