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| TikTok bans account of Palestinian armed group behind West Bank shootings |
| 2022-10-16 |
| [IsraelTimes] Lion’s Den used video-sharing site to publish footage of attacks, spread ideology; Israel said to request platform remove faction’s user as well. The TikTok video-sharing platform on Saturday banned an account belonging to an armed Paleostinian group responsible for numerous shooting attacks against Israeli forces and civilians in the northern West Bank in recent months. The account, belonging to the group calling itself "Lion’s Den," was removed for violating the platform’s community guidelines. According to Hebrew-language media reports, the move by TikTok to ban the account came following requests by Israel. The group, based in Nablus, was established in recent months by members of various terror groups. Some of its members were apparently previously affiliated with the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , among others. Lion’s Den had used its TikTok account to publish videos of its members committing shooting attacks and to spread its ideology. Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz earlier this week instructed law enforcement officials to focus efforts on combating incitement on social media, amid heightened tensions in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Lion’s Den, which is believed to consist of several dozen members without any proper hierarchy, continues to have a large following on the Telegram messaging service. It has grabbed credit for many shooting attacks in the Nablus area in recent months, including one on Tuesday that killed an Israeli soldier. Lion’s Den is tied to Ibrahim Nabulsi, a wanted Paleostinian gunman who was killed in an Israeli raid in Nablus in August. Several more members of the group have been killed by Israeli forces since. |
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