The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) and Hamas, the militant Islamist group in control of the Gaza Strip, don’t officially communicate with each other. But on Twitter Tuesday, the enemy groups shared an extremely rare interaction.
The Israeli army’s chief foreign media spokesman, Peter Lerner, tweeted a defense of the arrest in the West Bank of a Palestinian involved in a 2012 bus bombing, which ended with the suspect dead. Surprisingly, the official Twitter account of Hamas’ military wing, Alqassam Brigades, tweeted back. Alqassam told the lieutenant colonel it would continue its “holy struggle” and resistance until the liberation of Palestine. The tweet used the hashtags “#Palestine” and “#Zionists.” Read more…
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