Published : 07-05-2018
The management of the social networking site "Facebook" closed the "Yarmouk Camp News" page, which reports the news of the Palestinian camps in general, and Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus in particular.
The working team behind the "Yarmouk Camp News" page, which had exceeded more than 78 thousand likes and followers, clarified that the closure was caused by a reporting campaign aimed at targeting the page, after the images of destruction and shelling of Yarmouk camp were published on it, noting that the page’s activity will continue on their backup page.
The team stated: “They destroyed Yarmouk camp and besieged and starved its people. Now they want to silence the camp’s voice.” Activists noted that a number of news pages that are concerned with reporting the news of the Palestinian camps in Syria, have been subjected to similar campaigns.
On its part, pages close to the Syrian regime commented on the closure of the pages, saying: “Yarmouk Camp News and The Camp is the Eye of the Truth, have been closed for broadcasting sedition and terror in the hearts of our people,” accusing the pages and the teams behind them of destroying the camp and vandalising the houses.
The management of the social networking site "Facebook" closed the "Yarmouk Camp News" page, which reports the news of the Palestinian camps in general, and Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus in particular.
The working team behind the "Yarmouk Camp News" page, which had exceeded more than 78 thousand likes and followers, clarified that the closure was caused by a reporting campaign aimed at targeting the page, after the images of destruction and shelling of Yarmouk camp were published on it, noting that the page’s activity will continue on their backup page.
The team stated: “They destroyed Yarmouk camp and besieged and starved its people. Now they want to silence the camp’s voice.” Activists noted that a number of news pages that are concerned with reporting the news of the Palestinian camps in Syria, have been subjected to similar campaigns.
On its part, pages close to the Syrian regime commented on the closure of the pages, saying: “Yarmouk Camp News and The Camp is the Eye of the Truth, have been closed for broadcasting sedition and terror in the hearts of our people,” accusing the pages and the teams behind them of destroying the camp and vandalising the houses.
