Shehab’s news director, Hossam Al-Zayegh, took Facebook’s action as a new violation of the freedom of opinion and expression guaranteed by international law.
“Deleting our page is a reprehensible and reprehensible action aimed at fighting Palestinian content under the pretext of violating standards and inciting violence,” he added.
“Facebook ignores incitement and violation of societal standards by Israelis or Israeli political news sites or associations, while avoiding the publication of the Palestinian response to these provocations and incitement,” said Al-Zayegh, explaining that the agency had more than 7, 5 million followers on Facebook.
The Palestinian journalist group Bloc condemned the action of the social media platform, calling it “arbitrary and unfair”.
In 2020, Centro Social Echo documented 1,200 breaches of Palestinian digital content on social media platforms.
Legal rights center Adalah revealed in 2018 that social media giants are collaborating with Israeli authorities to censor user content.
In 2018, the Israeli Ministry of Justice said Facebook responded to about 85 percent of Israel’s requests to remove, block and provide data on Palestinian content on the site throughout 2017.