  {"id":300742,"date":"2024-09-01T11:33:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T15:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=300742"},"modified":"2024-09-04T11:34:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T15:34:31","slug":"unrwa-statement-01sep24","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-statement-01sep24\/","title":{"rendered":"The spread of misinformation &amp; disinformation continues to be used as a weapon in the war in Gaza &#8211; UNRWA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>01 September 2024<\/p>\n<p class=\"blue-with-border-left\"><strong>From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter)<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>As part of its campaign to undermine &amp; discredit\u00a0<em><a class=\"ext\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UNRWA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@UNRWA<\/a><\/em> , the Government of Israel has been buying ads on @<em><a class=\"ext\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Google\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google<\/a><\/em>\u00a0to block users from giving donations to the Agency + undertake a defamation campaign.<\/p>\n<p><em><a class=\"ext\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UNRWA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@UNRWA<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is the largest humanitarian organization responding to the crisis in\u00a0<em><a class=\"ext\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Gaza?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Gaza<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This does not just hurt the agency\u2019s reputation but most importantly it puts the lives of our staff at risk.<\/p>\n<p>These deliberate efforts to spread misinformation should stop + be investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Companies including social media platforms continue to make profit through spreading misinformation. More regulations are needed to combat disinformation + hate speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 01 September 2024 From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter) As part of its campaign to undermine &amp; discredit\u00a0@UNRWA , the Government of Israel has been buying ads on @Google\u00a0to block users from giving donations to the Agency + undertake a defamation campaign. @UNRWA\u00a0is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-statement-01sep24\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1338],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,6650,2005],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-300742","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-statement","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-funding-needs","document-subject-gaza-strip","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/300742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/300742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300781,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/300742\/revisions\/300781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=300742"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=300742"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=300742"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=300742"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=300742"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=300742"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=300742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}