EXCLUSIVE — The Biden administration is being accused in court of withholding internal records pertaining to a top Palestinian agency’s widely mocked social media post last year that urged Israel not to retaliate against Hamas, according to a complaint.

The State Department-housed Office of Palestinian Affairs came under widespread scrutiny for asking “all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks” in an X post as Hamas terrorists raped, murdered, and kidnapped Israelis in the Jewish state on Oct. 7. Now, a nonpartisan watchdog is suing the State Department to unearth the OPA’s communications surrounding this post, as well as more information about its organizational structure that the outside group says is shielded from its website, the Washington Examiner has learned.