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#AskHamas campaign reaches out on Twitter

Hamas started on March 13 a social media campaign on Twitter with the hashtag #AskHamas to reach out to the Western public in a bid to move closer to talks with European countries.
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Hamas took the unprecedented step on March 13 to address the Western public opinion in English on social media websites by using the hashtag #AskHamas. The campaign lasted for five days.

Hamas media adviser Taher al-Nunu told Al-Monitor, “The campaign was launched as the deadline to appeal the EU court ruling taking Hamas off its terror list approached [March 18]. The campaign targeted the Western public, with the objective of delivering messages expressing Hamas’ ideas, to the effect that Hamas is not a terrorist group but a national liberation movement, and that the Israeli occupation is the real terrorist.”

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