Al Jazeera's websites and platforms experienced
"continued electronic attacks aimed at accessing, disrupting and
controlling some of the news platforms" from last Saturday to Tuesday, the
network said in a statement.
"Al Jazeera's service provider was able to monitor and
fend off all the hacking attacks and prevent them from achieving their
goal," it said in the late Wednesday statement.
It said the peak of the attacks came on Sunday ahead of a
documentary described on Al Jazeera's Arabic YouTube channel as detailing
indirect negotiations between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas,
which included a voice recording purportedly of an Israeli held prisoner in
Gaza.
Al Jazeera had no immediate further comment when contacted
by Reuters early on Thursday.
The Qatar-funded channel's coverage of Middle East politics
is regarded as inflammatory by many in the region and was one of the factors
that led four Arab states to boycott Qatar in 2017.
Ahead of the embargo, Al Jazeera combated a large-scale
cyber attack after Qatar's state news agency QNA was hacked.
Saudi Arabia and its allies last January announced the end
of the row in which the boycotting states accused Qatar of supporting
terrorism, an accusation it denies. -Reuters
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