A group of hackers in Iraq broke into the "Tel Aviv" municipality website, taking it down. 

This comes just a week after a cyberattack of similar nature on the Israeli NTA Metropolitan Mass Transit System Ltd, which is responsible for the design and construction of a mass transit system in occupied Palestine. 

A Telegram news channel, Sabereen News, which is associated with the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), reported that Al-Tahera carried out the operation. 

“Do not work, suspended by order of General Qassem Soleimani,” read the message on the Israeli municipality website after it was hacked. 

Last week, the Israeli transit system company, which is currently building a light rail network in "Tel Aviv," said that its website was disrupted by a foreign cyberattack. 

Last April, the website of the Israeli Airports Authority was also hacked due to a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. The Airports Authority website was one of many targeted in a cyberattack, for which Al-Tahera claimed responsibility. 

Al-Tahera explained its motive by saying that it targeted the Israeli website as an act of revenge for the assassination of former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander martyr Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, deputy head of the PMF. 

Ex-Israeli chief speaks of Mossad role in Soleimani assassination

The Israeli occupation was involved in the assassination of martyr Soleimani, former IOF intelligence chief Tamir Hayman revealed last December. 

Hayman spoke with Malam magazine, published by the Israeli Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center. He described the assassination as one of "two significant and important assassinations" during his tenure. The other one is Islamic Jihad leader Baha Abu Al-Ata. 

Martyr Soleimani's assassination, he said, was "an achievement."