Steam Removes Oct 7 Game at Request of UK Counter-Terrorism Unit

· Nov 26, 2024 at 9:00 AM

The creator of a game that allows players to recreate “Operation al-Aqsa Flood” says it’s no different than Call of Duty.

Steam Removes Oct 7 Game at Request of UK Counter-Terrorism Unit — Image: Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque

Valve has removed a game from Steam in the UK that puts players in the shoes of a Palestinian fighter raiding Israeli Defense Force positions on October 7, 2023 at the request of the UK’s Counter-Terrorism Internet Referral Unit, which is tasked with removing extremist content from the internet.

The game, Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, is still available to buy in the U.S., and was originally released on Steam in 2022. The game made some headlines last year when it was highlighted by the conservative Twitter account LibsOfTikTok, which was appalled that it “allows players to simulate being a Hamas te*ro*ist who k*lls Jews in the Old City of Jerusalem while shouting “‘Allahu Akbar.’”