Twitter closes Hamas Al Qassam Brigades account. Hamas promptly opens another one.

From the Al Qassam Brigades English website (from a copy; I cannot reach the site itself):

Al Qassam Brigades- Gaza- Twitter has recently suspended the account of al-Qassam Brigades without any warning Thursday, January 9th ,2014.

A notification sent to Al Qassam’s Twitter account read “Your account (@AlqassamBrigade) is currently suspended”.

The Qassam Brigades confirmed that they did not violate Twitter’s terms of service ever, asserting that reason behind the suspension is Twitter subordination to US government and “Israel” as usual.

Jewish-Christian incitation against the Qassam active account, so long exposed Israel’s war crimes and violations against the Palestinian civilians led to the suspension of the Qassam Twitter account.

The Qassam Brigades strongly condemned the act and asserted on right to freedom of speech and expression and media.

I love when terror groups use the language of human rights! They may suppress the media and freedom of expression and freedom to gather publicly, they might fire people from jobs who do not adhere to their political views, they may jail rival political groups, but they demand all those rights themselves.

I was upset at this news, because the Hamas Twitter account provided me with material for the blog; not to mention I liked to make fun of them directly on Twitter. for example, this one, during the recent cold snap in the area:

Hey @AlqassamBrigade , have you been providing Gazans with ski masks for the cold, or are they only for you?
— ElderOfZiyon (@elderofziyon) December 15, 2013

Of course, the terror group immediately opened up another Twitter account, which as of this writing already has 4000 followers. It is a little silly to close accounts like that - better to keep them visible to everyone so the lies and hate can be exposed.