Twitter suspended the English-language account of Hamas’ military wing Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Israel Hayom reports.
The Palestinian news website Safa reported that Twitter sanctioned the terror group "without prior notice."
Hamas and the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades have several accounts hosted by the online messaging platform, all of which are used to promote anti-Israel incitement among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as across the Arab world.
According to the Algemeiner Journal, while Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades' primary Twitter handle, "@alqassamBrigade," was suspended, its secondary account, "@qassambrigade," is still accessible.
Twitter allows users to suggest suspension of others’ accounts.
Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades blamed Israel and the United States for its suspension in an online statement.
"The Qassam Brigades confirmed that they did not violate Twitter's terms of service ever, asserting that reason [sic] behind the suspension is Twitter subordination to U.S. government and 'Israel' as usual," the statement said.
"The Qassam Brigades strongly condemn the act and assert on [sic] right to freedom of speech and expression and media."
In late 2012, CUFI launched an initiative to ban Hamas from twitter. The action alert garnered more than 32,000 emails, which called for the suspension of the @AlqassamBrigade account among others. The emails were sent to Twitter and CC’d the local office of the U.S. Attorney.
The emails also cited the federal law 18 U.S.C. 2339A, which makes it illegal for any "U.S. Company to provide ‘material support’ to a terrorist organization."