ALBAWABA - X platform (formerly known as Twitter) suspended the account of Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas.
Al-Qassam Brigades announced a new account on the X platform, owned by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, on Monday. However, the account which gained a massive number of followers in a short time was suspended.
The account @qassam2024, had over 145,000 followers before it was suspended with a message left from X team: "X suspends all accounts that violate our rules and laws."
Pro-Palestinian activists slammed X for suspending Al-Qassam Brigades' account on social media and accused Musk of following Mark Zuckerberg's strategy of restricting Palestinian voices and deleting pro-Palestinian content.
Many social media users said that since the launch of the account, it gained wide fame and was breaking followers' records.
War in Gaza has been ongoing since Hamas announced the Al-Aqsa Flood operation against Israel, which is the biggest operation in years. In return, Israel started raids on the Gaza Strip.
The Health Ministry in Gaza reported that the death toll in the region jumped to over 23,000, and the number of injuries rose to 58,926 in ongoing Israeli attacks.
112 journalists were also killed in the besieged enclave since Oct. 7, with the latest being Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Al Dahdouh, son of Wael Al Dahdouh, along with his colleague Mustafa Thurayyah in a strike that directly targeted their vehicle in Khan Younis.
