Minister seeks to combat pro-Israeli disinfo campaign with digital platform

City Desk :

State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat has proposed creation of a collaborative digital platform to combat the disinformation campaign over Israeli Genocidal invasion of Gaza as he joined a special OIC conference of information ministers in Turkey.
“Israel has systematically disseminated false and misleading news to hide the cruelty and grave violation of international law in Gaza,” an information ministry statement quoted him as telling the conference on Saturday in Istanbul, reports BSS.
Arafat said a “collaborative digital platform” must be created to combat the spreading of misleading disinformation against Palestine and requested the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) secretariat to immediately prepare a plan for its launching.
“Bangladesh is ready to support the efforts of the OIC Secretariat to establish a standard information and documents pool containing documents of war crimes committed by Israel,” he added.
A video message by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan marked the opening of the conference when OIC Secretary General Hissein Brahim Taha, Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Information Nabil Abu Rudeineh, Turkey’s Communications Directorate President Fahrettin Altun delivered speeches.
The conference drew information ministers of the 49-member grouping of Muslim majority nations while 25 of them delivered speeches on their countries behalf in the opening session.
Arafat called Israel’s “despicable disinformation campaign” an attempt to cover up blatant war crimes that indiscriminately targeted children, women, the elderly, journalists and human rights activists and added “the world has hardly seen the continued killing of journalists and spreading of disinformation in Gaza”.
The Bangladeshi junior minister floated a seven-point of recommendation to end the brutal Israeli invasion with the first one being intensified campaign to stop immediately the conflict and ensure justice against crimes against humanity.
Secondly, he suggested, steps to keep open a humanitarian corridor for a continuous, rapid and safe supply of food, water, medicine and other life-saving materials to the residents of Gaza.