Palestinian Information Center Explained

The Palestinian Information Center
(PIC)
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Type:News
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Launch Date:1 January 1998
Current Status:active

The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) (Arabic: المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام) is a Hamas-affiliated Palestinian news website and network that was established first in Arabic on 1 December 1997 and later in English on 1 January 1998.

History

The Palestinian Information Center is a Palestinian news website and network that was established first in Arabic on 1 December 1997 and later in English on 1 January 1998. Other 7 languages followed. It is one of the most viewed website in Palestine, PIC aims to promote awareness about Palestine, the Palestinians and the Palestinian issue.[1]

In June 2017, PIC, along with at least 10 other Palestinian news websites outside the West Bank, was blocked in the West Bank per an order by the Palestinian Authority's public prosecutor.[2] PIC's Facebook page, which had close to 5 million followers, was taken down in October 2019, prompting protests using the hashtag #FBblocksPalestine.[3] Its website is blocked by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.[4]

Affiliation

PIC is a Hamas media outlet,[5] [6] [7] and is the leading gateway site in Hamas' online propaganda network of twenty websites. Its content and news coverage is primarily oriented towards Hamas's ideology and history.[8]

External links

References

  1. Web site: About Us – PIC . 11 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160109180042/http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/aboutus.aspx . 9 January 2016 . dead .
  2. News: Palestinian Authority blocks 11 news websites . 5 June 2024 . . 2017-06-15.
  3. News: Facebook takes down page of Palestine news site. Middle East Monitor. 11 October 2019.
  4. Web site: Palestinian websites blocked in W. Bank: Local sources . 2023-02-26 . www.aa.com.tr.
  5. Matta . Nada . The Second Intifada: A Dual Strategy Arena . European Journal of Sociology . 2016 . 57 . 78 . 5 June 2024 . We conducted a qualitative review of all statements by Hamas officials in the Arabic language press as well as on Hamas’s Palestinian Information Center (PIC) website.
  6. Hill . Thomas . From the Small Zinzana to the Bigger Zinzana: Israeli Prisons, Palestinian Prisons . . Spring 2016 . 45 . 3 . 12 . 5 June 2024 . Hamas outlets featured more explicit analogies between PA and Israeli practices. Among the tamest, the Palestinian Information Center bore the likes of “Abbas’s Militia Kidnap Eleven Palestinians Including One Woman,.
  7. Allen . Lori . Martyr Bodies in the Media: Human Rights, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Immediation in the Palestinian Intifada . . February 2009 . 26 . 1 . 162 . 5 June 2024 . Such representations are promulgated across the political spectrum --from the unofficial Hamas website (the Palestinian Information Center).
  8. Mozes. Tomer. Weimann. Gabriel. The E-Marketing Strategy of Hamas. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. 2010. 33. 3. 213–214. 10.1080/10576100903555762. 111124697.

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