The program "For the Story of the Rest" in a episode (6/6/202020) shed light on this issue, discussed whether exposure of Palestinian content on Facebook to intentional targeting or policies applied to everyone, and asked a direct question about the extent of Facebook's bias towards Israel against the Palestinians?
Among the stories reported by the program is the story of the photojournalist Hassan Islah, who has been following more than 200,000 people on his Facebook page, but he was surprised recently by the closure of the Facebook administration of his page, although what he has been showing on it since 2008 are coverage of events taking place in the Gaza Strip, as he did Documenting the wars and attacks on the sector.
According to Islah, his account contained pictures of the funeral of martyrs, the effects of destruction, bombing, festivals and events held inside the besieged sector, accusing Facebook of campaigning against him and many Palestinian activists by closing and blocking their accounts, which affected them in transferring the situation in the besieged sector since 14 years old.
He pointed out that his Facebook accounts have been banned 16 times, and that many of the pages he runs have been deleted, and that due to the continued restrictions on him he no longer has any account on Facebook, stressing that some of his accounts were closed after two minutes from publishing news related to the martyrs and their funeral.
In turn, the consultant at Impact International, Khalil Al-Agha, explained the restrictions on the Palestinian content due to the exposure of social media sites to a lot of pressure by some regimes, and “the owners of the pages are often classified as spreading hostile thinking and inciting violence.”
According to the center, "Echo Social" - based in Ramallah - it monitored the violations that affect the Palestinian content on Facebook, and found that it exceeds 70 violations, distributed between closing pages, accounts and groups, banning posts, and disrupting the feature of direct broadcasting.
The director of the center, Iyad Al-Rifai, said that his personal account was subject to a ban because of publications that talk about the Palestinian public affairs, and stressed that the center contacted all social media sites, especially the Facebook site, which they demand to justify the reasons for closing their pages and clarify them if there is doubt or confusion in some issues.
In turn, Professor of Space Physics at Al-Quds University, Imad Al-Barghouthi indicated that when he was arrested, investigators were interrogating him about what he had published on his Facebook page, and that they had an indictment of 21 articles, all of his Facebook page, and he was sentenced according to what he published.
In one of its reports, Human Rights Watch examined the restrictions that the occupation authorities have exercised against Palestinians, including their right to express their views on social media.
The organization says it has received many calls against Facebook because of the closure of the pages of journalists and other people.