Facebook apologised on Monday after disabling accounts linked to two major Palestinian news sites, enabled the accounts, said it was a “mistake.”
Facebook pages of a number of editors of Quds News Network, which has 5.2 million likes, were suspended for several hours last Friday, a campaigner said.
Pages linked to the Shehab News Agency, which has 6.35 million likes, were also disabled, an editor said.
“The pages were removed in error and restored as soon as we were able to investigate,” Facebook said in a statement.
“Our team processes millions of reports each week, and we sometimes get things wrong. We are very sorry about this mistake.”
Israel has been in discussions with Facebook to stop what it calls online incitement, including at a meeting of top officials earlier this month.
Meanwhile, the Israeli justice and public security ministers are also seeking legislation banning the use of Facebook to advance “terror” and outlawing incitement from the Internet.
Activists called on Palestinians to boycott Facebook activity for two hours on Sunday in protest. The hashtag #FBCensorsPalestine was also being used on Twitter.
“We fear that Facebook will assist the occupation and close the only space for free expression for the Palestinians,” said Iyad al-Rifai, spokesman for a campaign against such closures.
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Hussam al-Zaygh, managing editor at the Gaza-based Shehab, called the closures “a political decision dictated by the Israeli occupation.”
“It is our right as Palestinian journalists to make our voice heard,” he said.
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