Ra’fat Murra director of Hamas’s media affairs abroad has strongly denounced Facebook for blocking the Arabic page of the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) which was followed by millions of people.
The PIC was founded on December 1 1997 as a news website concerned with the Palestinian cause and the Arab conflict with the Israeli occupation. It is considered the only Palestinian multilingual website which is translated from Arabic into seven other languages.
In press remarks on Wednesday Murra described the measure by Facebook as “a crime against opinion expression and media freedoms.”
He said that such serious step was part of an ongoing Israeli campaign targeting Palestinian media outlets and social media activists.
“It is obvious that the shutdown of the Palestinian Information Center page is part of the efforts to muzzle the Palestinian voice” the Hamas official added.
