SINGAPORE: Singapore made the Israeli embassy in the city-state take down an “insensitive” social media post about the Palestinians over the weekend a...
: Singapore made the Israeli embassy in the city-state take down an “insensitive” social media post about the Palestinians over the weekend after warning it could inflame tensions, the interior minister said Monday.
The post reportedly said Israel was mentioned 43 times in the Koran but Palestine -- the name Palestinians give to what they hope will become their independent, sovereign state -- was not, according to local media. “That post on the Israeli embassy social media page is completely unacceptable. I was very upset when I was told about it,“ Shanmugam told reporters, according to a transcript.
The post was apparently posted in the context of the war between Israel and Hamas, which began after militant attacks that resulted in about 1,160 deaths in Israel, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
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