Based on a recent report by Business  for Social Research. Facebook and the parent company Meta "violated the rights of Palestinian users to exercise freedoms of expression,

assembly and political participation during the war on the Gaza Strip last year." Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused rights group Facebook and Facebook. Meta's Instagram, by siding with Israel at the expense of Palestinians who have been denied freedom  of expression.

The report noted that the "hashtag" # Aqsa was added to the ban list by the "dead" staff, thereby concealing it from the search results.

However, the report "did not determine whether the bias was deliberate in a substantial meta or among individual staff".

Last Thursday's report said Meta had implemented discriminatory and unequal policies regarding the Israeli-Palestinian but unintended conflict.

"Instagram and Facebook, owned by Meta, removed content documenting human rights violations during the May 2021 hostilities in Israel and Palestine," the rights group said in a tweet.

It considered that "censorship of content, especially during periods of violence, is detrimental to human rights".

In May 2021, Israel launched a violent bombing of the Gaza Strip in an 11-day war that ended in Egyptian mediation, killing dozens of Palestinians, injuring hundreds and killing some 17 from the Israeli side, including rockets fired towards Israel by Palestinian armed factions from the Gaza Strip.