January 3, 2009
Text messages and phone calls add psychological aspect to warfare in Gaza
Text messages and phone calls add psychological aspect to warfare in Gaza Hamas fires threatening text messages at Israeli mobile phones while Israel bombards Palestinians with menacing phone calls. The Guardian reports.
Israel and Hamas have mounted psychological warfare on each others' civilian populations. Hamas says it is firing threatening text messages at Israeli mobile phones and jamming radio stations while Israel is bombarding Palestinians with menacing phone calls and leaflets.
"The messages say that the Palestinian resistance missiles will reach you wherever you are and your government won't be able to protect you," said Abu Mujaheid, spokesman for the Palestinian Resistance Committees.
Hamas says it can send up to 70,000 text messages but so far there have been reports of just dozens. "[Israel is] sending text messages and interrupting Palestinian radio and trying to scare Palestinians with their messages so we are running a counter campaign by sending text messages to Israelis," Mujaheid said.
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