The twitter account of Hamas, Palestinian Islamist group opposing Israel military forces, has been suspended by the social networking site. Hamas posted a message revealing the news on its Al-Qassam website.
Hamas twitter handle @qassambrigade was the second one created by them as their first account, @alqassambrigade, was deleted by Twitter on 9th Jan.
The news on AL-Qassam website read, “the suspension of al-Qassam account by Twitter exposes the ‘unprofessional’ policy of the latest, and the total ‘bias’ to the Israeli occupation and real terrorism in the world,” the message on the website said. “Moreover, Twitter seems subordinated to the American- pro-Israel organizations supporting terror against Palestinian people.”
Israel Defense Force was definitely happy with this measure taken against Hamas and they also highlighted it on their official Twitter account,
“#Twitter has suspended the official account of #Hamas, a terrorist group that uses social media to threaten #Israel”
And they also wrote about it on IDF, Israel Defense Force, website;
“Because Hamas is designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under s219 of the USA’s Immigration Act, it is thereby “barred from receiving services under the laws of the United States”. By using Twitter, a company based in the U.S., Hamas was indeed violating the company’s Terms of Service.”
Twitter officials had very vague answer for their action against Hamas. One of the spokesperson told, “we do not comment on individual accounts, for privacy and security reasons,” referring to the Twitter guidelines that prohibits violent threats on the micro-blogging website.
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