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. 

 

 

 

Palestinian Terrorists Feeling Entitled to Control the Outcome of their Savagery

"I want to remind the citizens of Israel that every time you eat something or drink something, remember us, the hostages, who don’t have the opportunity to enjoy food or water."

"My fear for my life is daily. The military efforts to release me that [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu is selling you is what will end up leading to my death."

"I can tell you I have become scared of the army. I am really afraid of the moment the army might get to me, or blow up the place I am located."

Alexander Troufanov

 

"[With winter approaching], these hostages, who have been subjected to horrific conditions of abuse, starvation and darkness for over a year, face an increasing risk of losing their lives."

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum 

"I am relieved to see my son alive, but I am very worried to hear what he is saying."

"I urge that every effort be made to secure his immediate release and that of all other hostages."

"They have no time left."  

Yelena Troufanov

Russian-Israeli captive Alexander “Sasha” Trufanov seen in an undated video released by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Source: Screenshot/X.

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There were originally 254 Israeli infants, girls, women, men civilians, IDF soldiers, migrant farm workers captured by Palestinian terrorists who invaded southern Israel from Gaza with the specific purpose of looting, mass rape, mutilations and murder on a grand scale. These terrified people were taken hostage for the purpose of being used as 'trades' for Palestinian terrorists held in Israeli prisons, found guilty of crimes of terror. The hostages have been deprived of liberty, daylight, hygiene, adequate food provisions and have experienced humiliation and torture, young women constantly raped. Many have died of privation, ill health and others have been murdered.

Those that are left, both dead and alive, are still viewed as prized caches of human trade. Palestinians know well the penchant of Israelis to try to move heaven and earth to secure the release of their people from the tender claws of their enemies. It is not enough for the Palestinians who in the greater majority  fully support their terrorist groups, and specifically Hamas that had governed Gaza in their exploits of murder, rape and abduction of innocent children, the elderly, vulnerable women and others to satisfy their own sense of implacable victimhood.

Those holding the Israeli hostages enjoy the psychological warfare they indulge in, a sadistic exercise in savagery outlawed by civilized people, but perpetrated by those whose seething hatred is unappeasable and do their utmost to cause suffering and anguish to the families, friends, colleagues of those helpless victims by staging scenarios where their prisoners read from scripts given them in an obvious ploy to manipulate those affected -- which to all effects, is every Israeli citizen -- to spur efforts to demand of their government the acceptance of Hamas's conditions for the release of the hostages.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which along with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Hamas and ordinary Palestinian civilians had taken part in the massacre of October 7, and the hostage-taking, released a video meant as proof that the hostage being featured is not yet dead. In the videos released by Hamas and PIJ, drawn and haggard victims plead with their families, with their government to use all means to secure their release. The terrorists hope that the end effect of these heartstring-pulling exercises in pain for Israel, it can turn the population against its government intent on destroying Palestinian terror groups.

This latest video featured Russian-Israeli hostage Alexander 'Sasha' Troufanov, abducted during the terrorist attack of 2023 from his family home, held captive for 404 days, in the Gaza Strip. This third video of Sasha Troufanov has him stating that he and the other captives remaining -- a hundred in number, but many no longer living -- and receiving inadequate food, much less basic hygiene products, pleading for the Israeli public to call for a hostage agreement. He expressed his fear of being accidentally killed by Israeli Defense Forces on cue; not very subtle, but quite effective.

The 29-year-old Troufanov was taken hostage from Kibbutz Nir Oz, as was his mother, Yelena Trouifanov; his grandmother Irena Tati, and his girlfriend, Sapir Cohen. His father, Vitaly Troufanov was murdered during the Nir Oz onslaught by Hamas as were 40 other residents of the Kibbutz. Since the abduction his mother and grandmother were freed in November of 2023, as requested by Russian President Vladimir Putin, while Sapir Cohen was released in a ceasefire agreement the same month.