Users searching for “UNRWA” or “UNRWA USA” have been served a link to Israel’s government website vilifying the agency.
Officials of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East play with the children who were adversely affected by Israeli attacks near a school for Palestinian refugees in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on July 4, 2024.
The ad campaign is paid for by the Israeli government, and the ad links to a page on Israel’s official government website. At least a portion of the ad campaign appears to be directly targeted toward a U.S. audience. Google searches for “UNRWA” and “UNRWA USA” at the time of this article’s writing pulled up a sponsored link to a page on Israel’s government website that repeated many of the baseless claims regarding UNRWA that Israeli officials have spread in recent months, like unproven claims about the agency’s supposed ties to Hamas soldiers.by investigations independent of Israel’s influence.
Israel has also aired videos against the agency via Google’s ad services saying that “UNRWA is inseparable from Hamas.”“There is an incredibly powerful campaign to dismantle UNRWA,” UNRWA USA Executive Director Mara Kronenfeld, who first discovered the ads herself while googling her agency in January, told. “I want the public to know what’s happening and the insidious nature of it, especially at a time when civilian lives are under attack in Gaza.
Google searches for UNRWA have spiked since Israel began its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza in October, meaning that many looking up the agency may have seen these ads. The ads may be influencing public opinion at a time when politicians in the U.S.
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