Bella Hadid says Instagram restricted her posts about Al Aqsa raid

Palestinian-American supermodel Bella Hadid on Saturday shared how Instagram restricted her posts about the raid on the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. 

“My Instagram has disabled me from posting on my story - pretty much only when it is Palestine based I’m going to assume,” Hadid wrote on her Instagram story. “When I post about Palestine I get immediately shadowbanned and almost 1 million less of you see my stories and posts.”

In a subsequent post, Hadid posted a screenshot of what appeared to be an attempt to re-post a video of an Israeli officer assaulting an elderly Palestinian man, which she captioned, “Won’t let me repost…for 2 hours now,” with a crying emoji. 

She shared a clip that appeared to show the Israeli army at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. "Posting this video directly after," Hadid wrote. "Let's be reminded that this land is some of the Holiest soil in the world. Where Jesus was born. Where every religion has a place to call home. To pray. To be. To live. (Not at all safe as you can see.) With mosques, synagogues, churches……" She added, "But to do this to only one group, during prayer on the holy month of Ramadan is just truly sick in the head."

Hadid said in a separate frame that a pair of posts she was 'trying to re-post from Eye On Palestine all day,' and had penned 'long messages' about were 'the only ones that are not uploading.' The supermodel shared multiple frames of posts that did not appear to be uploaded to her Instagram Stories despite her attempts.

 

Israeli police raided the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Friday with at least 20 wounded, medics said, in the first face-off in the area since the start of Ramazan. The Islamic endowment that runs the site said Israeli police entered in force before dawn on Friday, as thousands of worshippers were gathered at the mosque for early morning prayers, according to Al Jazeera.

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