Twitter page of Al-Qassam Brigades arbitrarily closed

Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said that the administration of the Twitter social networking service had closed without prior notice its increasingly popular English page.

Al-Qassam website quoted the supervisor of the removed page as saying that the Twitter administration closed on Thursday Al-Qassam Brigades page after it had complied with pressures made by “Zionist and Christian groups”.

The supervisor accused Twitter of deliberately removing the page after its followers had become more than 40,000 persons

He said that this arbitrary step by Twitter came after the huge success which Al-Qassam Brigades had achieved in its virtual warfare against the Israeli occupation regime.

He described the policy pursued by Twitter as non-professional, noting that Twitter was supposed to remove the page of the criminal Israeli army due to the terrorism it exercises everyday against the occupied Palestinian people.