Suing Meta for Hosting The Ravaging of Israeli Civilians

"[Meta failed to activate its live content monitoring systems, deploy its rapid response team or remove the content quickly], nor long thereafter (and in fact -- to this very day)."

"The Respondent acted contrary to its policy, its commitments, and its obligations, allowing its social networks to serve as a weapon, as an inseparable part of the terrorist attack on the State of Israel."

"For many hours, in real time and long after the terrorist attack, horrific documentation from the attack was disseminated, showing innocent civilians — children, elderly, women, and men — subjected to atrocities that even paper cannot bear to describe."

"[The footage included] murder, extreme violence [and] abduction of civilians and soldiers, both living and dead [among other brutal scenes]."

Lawsuit statement of claim

 

"Our hearts go out to the families affected by Hamas terrorism. Our policy designates Hamas as a proscribed organization, and we remove content that supports or glorifies Hamas or the October 7 terrorist attack."

"Following the attacks, we established dedicated teams that work around the clock to remove content that violates our policy, while ensuring our platforms remain available for condemning Hamas and raising awareness for the victims, including the hostages held in Gaza." 

Meta response to Class-Action Lawsuit

View of the Re'im music festival massacre, in southern Israel, January 16, 2025.

(photo credit: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

 

A class-action suit has been filed against Facebook parent Meta by families of victims of the October 7, 2023 invasion of southern Israel by Hamas terrorists. The lawsuit contends that Facebook failed to block distribution of footage of the murder, abduction and torment of their loved ones. Filed in Tel Aviv District Court, the lawsuit seeks 4 billion shekels (roughly US$1.1 billion) in damages. The distribution would see 200,000 shekels to each victim of October 7 who suffered savage violence that was documented and shared on social media. 

 

Of the total sought in damage compensation, 200,000 shekels is to be awarded to immediate family members and close friends for whom the  footage was a painful moral outrage, as well as 20,000 shekels apportioned to each Israeli exposed to the footage. The plaintiffs include some survivors for whom the footage turned Facebook and Instagram into "an integral part of the terrorist attack on Israel".  

 

 

 

The Givatayim-based law firm of Matri, Meiri, Wacht & Co. represent the plaintiffs, with the firm's lawyers arguing that the videos were permitted to remain for weeks to be viewed online, contradicting Meta's stated policies. One of the lead plaintiffs discovered his grandmother's death through a Facebook post by the terrorists. His grandmother had been a resident of Kibbut Nir Oz. 

 

To be perfectly clear; the horrors of the October 7 invasion were sadistically savage in nature, atrocities that went beyond what most civilized populations could ever imagine might be perpetrated against innocent, vulnerable civilians. The rapes, mutilations, remarkably inhumane methods of murdering children, the elderly, women and entire families were meticulously videoed by body cams for the express purpose of demonstrating what demonic psychopaths were capable of, and proudly so.

 

Those videos were downloaded on social media platforms with the intention of boasting on the part of Palestinians dedicated to the eradication of the Jewish state and the mass murder that would accompany it, as a supreme act of 'resistance' against the 'occupation' of 'Palestinian territories' by a military whose sole purpose was to defend and protect the population of a nation whom Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza were indoctrinated to hate and to consider martyrdom through sacrifice in killing Jews was their supreme destiny.