Palestinian Information Center#cite note-2
{{Short description|Palestinian news website}}
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The Palestinian Information Center (PIC; {{langx|ar|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.{{Cite web |url=http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/aboutus.aspx |title=About Us – PIC |access-date=11 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109180042/http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/aboutus.aspx |archive-date=9 January 2016 |url-status=dead }}
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.{{cite news |title=Palestinian Authority blocks 11 news websites |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/6/15/palestinian-authority-blocks-11-news-websites |access-date=5 June 2024 |work=Al Jazeera English |date=2017-06-15}} PIC's Facebook page, which had close to 5 million followers, was taken down in October 2019, prompting protests using the hashtag
Affiliation
PIC is affiliated with the Palestinian political and military organization Hamas.{{cite journal |last1=Matta |first1=Nada |title=The Second Intifada: A Dual Strategy Arena |journal=European Journal of Sociology |date=2016 |volume=57 |issue=1 |page=78 |doi=10.1017/S0003975616000035 |jstor=26573250 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26573250 |access-date=5 June 2024 |quote=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}}{{cite journal |last1=Hill |first1=Thomas |title=From the Small Zinzana to the Bigger Zinzana: Israeli Prisons, Palestinian Prisons |journal=Journal of Palestine Studies |date=Spring 2016 |volume=45 |issue=3 |page=12 |doi=10.1525/jps.2016.45.3.7 |jstor=26378601 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26378601 |access-date=5 June 2024 |quote=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,}}{{cite journal |last1=Allen |first1=Lori |title=Martyr Bodies in the Media: Human Rights, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Immediation in the Palestinian Intifada |journal=American Ethnologist |date=February 2009 |volume=26 |issue=1 |page=162 |jstor=27667535 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27667535 |access-date=5 June 2024 |quote=Such representations are promulgated across the political spectrum --from the unofficial Hamas website (the Palestinian Information Center)}}
References
External links
- {{URL|english.palinfo.com}}
- {{Twitter}}
- {{facebook|PalinfoEN}} (in English)
{{Palestinian media}}
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