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Instagram has 'shadow banned' me over posts about Palestine, says Bella Hadid

"When I post about Palestine, I get immediately shadow banned and almost 1 million less of you see my stories and posts," Palestinian-American supermodel Bella Hadid has told fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar.

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Instagram has shadow banned me over posts about Palestine, says Bella Hadid

Palestinian-American supermodel Bella Hadid says she is being silenced by Instagram whenever she posts anything about Palestine.

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Instagram has shadow banned me over posts about Palestine, says Bella Hadid

"My Instagram has disabled me from posting on my story - pretty much only when it is Palestine based I'm going to assume," she said.

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Instagram has shadow banned me over posts about Palestine, says Bella Hadid

"When I post about Palestine, I get immediately shadow banned and almost 1 million less of you see my stories and posts," she told fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar.

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Instagram has shadow banned me over posts about Palestine, says Bella Hadid

Being shadow banned means that your exposure on a given social media platform has been restricted and only you and your direct followers can see your posts, the magazine said.

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Instagram has shadow banned me over posts about Palestine, says Bella Hadid

Tension has mounted across the Palestinian territories since Israeli forces raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyard on Friday amid clashes with worshippers, injuring hundreds.

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Instagram has shadow banned me over posts about Palestine, says Bella Hadid

On Sunday, more than 700 Israeli settlers forced their way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex under heavy police protection to celebrate the week-long Jewish Passover holiday, which started on Friday.

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Instagram has shadow banned me over posts about Palestine, says Bella Hadid

Al-Aqsa Mosque is the world's third-holiest site for Muslims. Jews call the area the "Temple Mount," claiming it was the site of two Jewish temples in ancient times.

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Instagram has shadow banned me over posts about Palestine, says Bella Hadid

Israel occupied East Jerusalem, where Al-Aqsa is located, during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. It annexed the entire city in 1980 in a move never recognized by the international community.