Today's Tuesday, May 11th, and you're listening to The Morning Announcements presented

by Bechtes Media.

I'm Sammy Sage.

Tensions continue to escalate yesterday in Jerusalem with Hamas firing dozens of rockets

towards Jerusalem and other Israeli towns close to Gaza, and the Israeli military responding

with strikes in Gaza.

As of this recording, Israeli Air Force said that it had killed three Hamas operatives,

while Gaza help officials said 20 Palestinians were killed, including nine children.

This marks the first time that Hamas has fired rockets at Jerusalem since 2014 and is the

most serious escalation in a while, with Israeli military officials preparing for an operation

that they say could potentially last several days.

Now we have an update on the pipeline ransomware attack.

Colonial pipeline is estimating that they will be able to substantially restore operational

service by the end of the week.

Meanwhile, the FBI has been investigating who conducted the attack and confirmed yesterday

that a professional cyber criminal group called Dark Side, Sounds Legitimate, was responsible

for it.

Officials previously said that no countries are being blamed for the attack, and Dark Side

posted a statement to its website yesterday that fits with that narrative, stating,

We are a political, we do not participate in geopolitics, do not need to tie us with

the defined government and look for our motives.

Our goal is to make money and not creating problems for society.

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