PARIS: A grandmother's death livestreamed, fighters announcing to Israelis their relatives have been killed or humiliating hostage videos show Hamas' determination to use social media propaganda alongside violence, experts say.
Mor Bayder's phone didn't buzz on Saturday morning, which was her grandmother's routine call to ask if she was awake.Instead, Bayder discovered her grandmother's 'brutal murder' during the Hamas attack on a village bordering the Gaza Strip posted on Facebook, she wrote on the social networking site.'A terrorist broke into her home, murdered her, took her phone, photographed the horror and posted it on her Facebook wall. That's how we found out,' she added.
Although such propaganda is not a new addition to the Palestinian militant group's arsenal, 'today we see much more sophisticated methods of manipulation and propaganda from Hamas,' said Ruslan Trad, resident fellow for security research at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab.By the fourth day of the surprise Hamas attack, compared by Israel to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians had been killed.
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