A retro computer screen saying 'shady IDF' with a skull in a computer dialog box

SHUT IT DOWN - IDF Extortion Website

This is a public pressure campaign to notify tech companies they are being exploited by the IDF and encourage them to deplatform the Israeli military's illegal extortion website: alkasheffgaza.net.

Call to Action

The IDF extortion website is effectively deplatformed, as it has no database. There is no call to action at the moment.

Table of Contents

Clearly an Illegal Extortion Website

The site promises to release thousands of reports of sensitive personal information, unless victims cooperate (Google Translate, June 3).

Screen capture of extortion website with the words 'We will expose [...] thousands of reports containing personal and sensitive information about residents of the Gaza Strip' underlined.

The extortion is not hidden: 'To save yourself, call the number below' (Google Translate, 3 June).

Screen capture of extortion website with a threat 'to save yourself, call the number below' (we redacted).

The threats are not idle. The site already contains almost 200 personal records of victims, including government ID number, name, and photograph (we redacted private information, screen capture June 3).

Screen capture of extortion website with names, images, id numbers and more (we redacted).

All Calls to Action

About the IDF Extortion Website

On May 17, the Israeli military dropped leaflets in Deir Balah, Gaza, for the purpose of extorting Gaza residents, including children and toddlers. The leaflets threaten to reveal Gazans' personal information, criminal records, extramarital affairs, LGBTQ identities, etc.

The IDF leaflets, designed to look like a newspaper, use the name ‘The Exposer’. The IDF also developed a matching extortion website, complete with a snitch box, separate snitch Telegram and Twitter accounts, and a countdown timer.

Israel's Extortion Website in the News

Timeline of Israel's Extortion Website and our Campaign to Shut It Down

Phone Numbers for the IDF Extortion Website

Social Media Accounts for the IDF Extortion Website

Telegram Accounts for IDF Extortion

@AlkasheffGaza

@newgaza24

@alkasheffgazabot

Twitter Accounts for IDF Extortion

@NewGaza24

@alkasheffgaza

@alkasheff_gaza

IDF Leaflets and the Extortion Website

Israel claims it drops leaflets as a humanitarian effort to evacuate the civilian population in Gaza. But in reality, the IDF leaflets are used to threaten or extort the Palestinians of Gaza.

Legal Disclaimer

Everything here is described to the best of our knowledge. When we use the word "deplatformed" we are referring to the extortion website leaving a hosting company after we raised awareness, by reporting the site to the hosting company. We want to be clear that neither Namecheap nor Webflow put out a public statement. It is our belief, based on the DNS changes and chronology, that both companies cancelled/deplatformed the extortion website.