Palestinian Information Center

The Palestinian Information Center
Website type
News
Available in9 different languages
Websiteenglish.palinfo.com
CommercialNo
Launched1 January 1998
Current statusactive

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.

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. PIC's Facebook page, which had close to 5 million followers, was taken down in October 2019, prompting protests using the hashtag #FBblocksPalestine.

Affiliation

PIC is affiliated with the Palestinian political and military organization Hamas.

References

  1. ↑ "About Us – PIC". Archived from the original on 9 January 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Palestinian Authority blocks 11 news websites". Al Jazeera English. 15 June 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
  3. ↑ "Facebook takes down page of Palestine news site". Middle East Monitor. 11 October 2019.
  4. ↑ Matta, Nada (2016). "The Second Intifada: A Dual Strategy Arena". European Journal of Sociology. 57 (1): 78. doi:10.1017/S0003975616000035. JSTOR 26573250. Retrieved 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
  5. ↑ Hill, Thomas (Spring 2016). "From the Small Zinzana to the Bigger Zinzana: Israeli Prisons, Palestinian Prisons". Journal of Palestine Studies. 45 (3): 12. doi:10.1525/jps.2016.45.3.7. JSTOR 26378601. Retrieved 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,
  6. ↑ Allen, Lori (February 2009). "Martyr Bodies in the Media: Human Rights, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Immediation in the Palestinian Intifada". American Ethnologist. 26 (1): 162. JSTOR 27667535. Retrieved 5 June 2024. Such representations are promulgated across the political spectrum --from the unofficial Hamas website (the Palestinian Information Center)