WASHINGTON POST
by Adam Taylor
March 12, 2015

According to a number of reports, the media wing of Hamas, the Islamist militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, announced a social media operation aimed at Europeans on Thursday. One feature: The group would set up an English-language Twitter account (@HamasInfoEn) and allow senior members of the group to take questions via the hashtag #AskHamas. What could possibly go wrong? A lot, obviously. According to social media analytic company Topsy, there have already been over 3,000 tweets with the hashtag #AskHamas in the last three hours and almost all appear to be negative. READ MORE

Some of the tweets

#AskHamas my wife wants to change my rocket launching room into a room for our stupid baby. How should I honor kill her?

Are you guys against all indigenous peoples self determination on their ancestral lands or just the jews? #AskHamas

#AskHamas Why do u fire rockets from civilian areas, while your leaders live in luxury in Qatar?

#AskHamas when you poison the nails you use in suicide bomb blasts do you prefer rat poison or hydrochloric acid?

#AskHamas How many houses could have been built with the cement you diverted to rebuild terror bases and tunnels?

#AskHamas if u had a choice between blowing up a bus full of Jews and feeding the children in Gaza for a year what size bomb would you use?

#AskHamas When will you be holding Gaza’s next elections? Don’t all answer at once!

#AskHamas What would you prefer to watch: Haniyeh, I Blew Up The Kids or Martyred…with Children?

#AskHamas why do you take your families to #Israeli hospitals but use Gaza’s hospitals for weapons/fighting?

#AskHamas Please rank in order of importance: 1. Healthcare 2. Housing 3. Social services 4. Defeating Fatah 5. Tunnels to kill Jews