ALBAWABA - Pro-Palestine activists and human rights advocates accused META's Facebook of allowing and approving ads that are inciting hate and violence against Palestinians.
The Intercept reported shared that multiple advertisements, in both Hebrew and Arabic, were agreed upon by Facebook and its mother company Meta calling directly for the murder of the Palestinian people.
The Facebook ads included content that are pushing for a "holocaust for the Palestinians" and to wipe out "Gazan women and children and the elderly."
Other ads also described kids from Gaza as "future terrorists" and even referred to "Arabs as pigs," with a dehumanizing language, The Intercept reported citing material it gained.
The report comes amid the ongoing Israel-Gaza war which began on Oct. 7 following the announcement of the Hamas group to launch the "Al-Aqsa Flood" operation against Israel, and the Israeli attacks on the Gaza strip which led to the death of over 14,500 and injured more than 30,000 others.
"The approval of these ads is just the latest in a series of Meta’s failures towards the Palestinian people," Nadim Nashif, founder of the Palestinian social media research and advocacy group 7amleh, revealed to The Intercept after he submitted the test ads.
“Throughout this crisis, we have seen a continued pattern of Meta’s clear bias and discrimination against Palestinians.”
A 4-day truce was agreed between Hamas and Israel in which a temporary ceasefire will take place in the upcoming days in addition to the prisoners swap death, in which Israel agreed on the release of 150 Palestinians while Hamas will release 50 hostages.
However, the truce's affection date will be announced in the next upcoming hours according to Qatar, which has been playing a huge role in reaching this truce deal in addition to the mediation of Egypt.
