Tel Aviv (dpa) – Unknown hackers immobilized the websites of two Israeli hospitals Wednesday, after targeting them with denial of service attacks, the latest salvo in the cyber war between pro-Israelis and pro-Palestinians. Neither website – of Assuta hospital, in northern Tel Aviv, or of the Sheba medical center, to the east of the city – was breached, Israeli media reported, but both were rendered unavailable by the attacks. It appeared that both sites crashed after millions of users simultaneously tried to enter them. Technicians were attempting to identify the source of the cyber attacks. The cyber war kicked off in early January, when a hacker calling himself “OxOmar” published online the credit card details of thousands of Israelis, after breaking into what he said were more than 80 Israeli servers. He said he was then joined by a group calling itself Nightmare, and went on to paralyze several Israeli websites, including that of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and Israel's El-Al International Airlines. Pro-Israel hackers, for their part, published the log-in details of 20,000 Arab Facebook users, and said they had taken down websites in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/96i5o Tags: Hackers, Hospitals, Israel Section: Latest News, Palestine, Tech