{"id":305912,"date":"2026-02-23T11:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/305912\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:48:13","slug":"israel-designates-palestinian-online-platforms-as-hamas-affiliates-warns-of-escalation-in-jerusalem-middle-east-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/305912\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel designates Palestinian online platforms as Hamas affiliates, warns of escalation in Jerusalem \u2013 Middle East Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s Defence Minister, Israel Katz, has signed a military order classifying a number of Palestinian online media platforms as affiliates of Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Israeli decision, Hamas is allegedly using these platforms to incite unrest among Palestinians, particularly in Jerusalem, during the month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Channel 12 reported a warning issued by the Shin Bet security agency. The agency said: \u201cThere is a deliberate attempt to stir unrest and incite violence, with a focus on Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Shin Bet added that five online platforms were operating as Hamas affiliates, especially those managed from Turkey. It said action would be taken against them under Israel\u2019s counter-terrorism law.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli report also stated that the information had been shared with US officials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20260221-it-would-be-fine-if-they-took-it-all-us-envoy-says-about-israeli-biblical-claims\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018It would be fine if they took it all\u2019: US envoy says about Israeli biblical claims<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s Defence Minister, Israel Katz, has signed a military order classifying a number of Palestinian online media platforms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-305912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}