Social media giant YouTube has quietly removed hundreds of videos documenting Israeli rights violations in Palestinian territories and shuttered the channels of three prominent Palestinian human-rights organizations.
The deletion of more than 700 videos, first reported by The Intercept, has raised concerns about censorship and accountability amid Israel's genocidal war in Gaza and rights abuses in the occupied West Bank.
Apart from rights violations, the videos also covered testimonies from survivors, investigations into the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shirin Abu Akleh and documentation of home demolitions by Israeli forces.
Among the accounts deleted were those of Al‑Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR).
YouTube attributed the removals to compliance with U.S. sanctions that target entities collaborating with the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into alleged war crimes by Israeli leaders.
