Hamas criticizes Facebook for closing dozens of pages of its followers

Gaza, Jan 7 (EFE) .-Hamas criticized Facebook on Saturday for closing dozens of accounts and pages of its supporters after the Islamist movement launched a campaign in which it praised its first bomb maker, Iejie Ayash, known as "O Engineer ", who died in 1996 in an explosion.

According to one of the group's spokesmen, Hussam Badran, the social network canceled more than 90 pages of Hamas and 30 other followers, Maan news agency reported.

The closure is due to the permanent escalation of Facebook's administration with "Israeli occupation policies," Badran said, and was heavily condemned by several Gaza activists.

The group launched a campaign to mark the 21st anniversary of Ayash's assassination, famed for his ability to make explosives inside the Hamas armed wing, the Ezedin al-Qassam Brigades, and whom Israel blamed for the deaths of more than 50 of his Citizens in attacks.

Ayash, the most wanted Palestinian guerrilla in Israel, in particular by his General Security Service (the secret "Shin Bet"), died in the explosion on January 5, 1996 of a telephone bomb at his home in Beit Lahia, in the Strip Of Gaza.

Hamas encouraged on social networks that its example be followed under the hashtag "Be as Ayash."

Over the past year and a half, the Israeli government has accused social networks of indirectly encouraging, with the release of certain information, the wave of violence that shakes the region since October 2015, which killed at least 243 Palestinians and a Jordanian, more than two Thirds in attacks or alleged attacks, which also killed 38 Israelis, three foreigners and a Palestinian passer-by.

In this line, the Israeli parliament has approved the first of three ballots of a bill so that district courts can order companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Google to remove any content they consider to instigate violence or represent a threat at the individual level, Collective or against the security of the State.