In this reconstruction video, Hamas’ military wing Al-Qassam Brigade, claim to have aborted a missile attack on an IDF position when Israeli children playing football appear next to the base.
The video released on YouTube on Monday evening was tweeted from the official Al-Qassam Twitter account.
Al-Qassam claim the footage was inspired by “real events that took place in the latest Israeli offensive on Gaza.”
Hamas announced the launch of a social media campaign last Thursday, in order to have dialogue with the West by answering people’s questions online.
The spokesman of Al-Qassam, tweeted on Monday evening with the hashtaq #AskHamas, so users in the West could ask them questions directly on Twitter.
MP Huda Naim answered all the questions on the first day on the role of women in Hamas.
In the second day, the Hamas leader and ex-detainee Rohi Mushtaha answered questions relating to Palestinian prisoners.
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Deputy Chairman of Hamas’ Political Bureau, Ismail Hanneya, answered questions regarding his group’s position towards various political issues on Sunday evening, the third day of the campaign.
Hamas is widely viewed as a resistance group in the Arab and Muslim world but Israel’s allies in the West, such as the UK, consider it a terrorist organisation.
