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| Twitter Suspends Account of Hamas Armed Wing |
| 2014-01-24 |
| [An Nahar] A Twitter account of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,'s armed wing has been suspended by administrators, the Paleostinian Islamist movement said Thursday, accusing the social media site of censorship. The account of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, @AlqassamBrigade, appeared to have been suspended several times over the past week, and was still inaccessible with a "suspended" notice on Thursday. A front man for the armed wing of Hamas, which governs the Gazoo Strip, accused Twitter of suppressing freedom of speech and of pandering to the political agenda of Hamas's sworn enemy Israel. "This is proof of the moral bankruptcy of the (Israeli) occupation in fighting any vocal resistance to it, and is an attempt to wipe out the truth and hide the crimes of the Zionist occupation against Paleostinian civilians," front man Abu Obaida wrote to Agence La Belle France Presse. "Twitter's administration are exercising double standards. They're giving credibility to the Zionist (Israeli) army, allowing it to practice its terrorism against the innocent and use its Twitter account to wage threats. "But they're censoring the Qassam Brigades account, which exposes the hostilities of the terrorist Zionist army and shows the truth. "This is a clear violation of Twitter's rules and regulations," he said. A Twitter spokesperson refused to comment, telling AFP: "We do not comment on individual accounts, for privacy and security reasons." |
| Posted by:Fred |