Hamas ‘Twitter’ account closed

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories, April 1, (AFP): The Palestinian militant group Hamas lashed out at Twitter on Friday, after the social media giant allegedly closed a number of its accounts.

The party’s military wing, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, said its English and Arabiclanguage accounts had been closed for the third time in two weeks.

One of the closed accounts had more than 140,000 followers, it said in a statement.

Hamas is designated a terrorist organisation by the European Union and many Western nations.