Valve has removed a game from Steam in the UK in response to a request from the UK's Counter-Terrorism Internet Referral Unit, a body that polices extreme content on the internet (thanks, 404). The game in question is called Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, was released in 2022, and casts the player as a member of the Hamas group attacking Israeli targets.
While the game has been available for a while, and would obviously cause offence to some anyway, this latest development seems spurred by a new update at the start of October (the "Operation al-Aqsa Flood Update") which features recreations of some aspects of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. The trailer for this update includes text such as "I want an explosive belt to blow up myself over the Zionists!” alongside game footage of Hamas fighters shooting Israeli Defense Force soldiers, as well as the execution of an Israeli hostage.
