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Facebook and Instagram have removed numerous videos from the Order 9 movement’s social media accounts and its activity on Instagram has been suspended, the organization announced Thursday.

Order 9 was the main organization that prevented trucks carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip from reaching their destination. The organization is made up of family members of hostages, Israel Defense Forces reservists, family members of victims of terrorist attacks and other Israelis who support the cause.

When the movement tried to release a video in which relatives of hostages called for a halt to the delivery of aid to Gaza, it found that its social media accounts were blocked.

“Meta silences the overwhelming majority of people who understand and agree that in times of war, aid cannot be sent to Hamas. The organized harm does not come from Order 9 and the families of the hostages, but from the terrorist organization Hamas. The demand is that the Israeli government ensure that the trucks heading to Gaza do not fall directly into the hands of the enemy,” Order 9 said in a statement.

Several of the movement’s posts were removed on Facebook on the grounds of “organized damages and promotion of crime.” The movement’s ability to publish on its page was also blocked. Instagram has blocked his account.

People camp to protest against the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza and demand the immediate release of hostages kidnapped during the October 7 massacre by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, at the Kerem Shalom border crossing, Israel, February 7, 2024. ( Source: DYLAN MARTINEZ/REUTERS)

The video, which prompted social media platforms to restrict the movement’s accounts, featured a statement from family members of the hostages. “Israel is providing aid to the terrorist organization Hamas,” said Noga Elfasi, the niece of Kibbutz Nir Oz hostage Mia Goren, whose death the IDF recently confirmed on October 7. Her body is still being held in Gaza.

Why block humanitarian aid to Gaza?

Yael Sabrigo, the niece of hostage Lior Rodaif, whose death the IDF also confirmed on October 7 and whose body is still being held hostage in Gaza, said: “Those who receive and control the aid also control Gaza and will ultimately decide the fate of the hostages.”

In an interview with CNN in early March, one of the organization’s members at the Kerem Shalom border crossing argued: “If we knew it would reach the children in Gaza, we would allow it. It doesn’t arrive on their doorstep, it enters the tunnels of Hamas, which is fighting us and holding our hostages.”

When pressed by the interviewer, who claimed that people in Gaza were starving and there was a humanitarian crisis, another woman replied: “Even if there is a humanitarian crisis there – and there is not – but even if there is, it is my right and my duty to give priority to the life of Kfir Bibas over any baby in Gaza.”



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