This Ongoing War..
11 November '12..
Please first look at the photo:
Online here [click to see a larger version] |
It's criss-crossing the blogosphere and Twitter network like crazy tonight. It pretends to be an image of children who, along with the man lying on a stretcher next to them, were allegedly targeted today by Israel's forces for being terrorists. You can see it here or Twitter-search for it here.
In reality, the picture is four years old. It has nothing to do with anything that happened in Gaza tonight. Check it out here.
Why are we seeing it now? Why is it being pushed across the world's social media networks tonight?
Heavy fighting has going on in southern Israel and inside Gaza since early this evening. It began when an IDF patrol was hit by an anti-tank rocket fired from within Gaza around sundown. Several Israeli servicemen are seriously injured. In a country where most people's children serve in the defence forces, an attack like this does not go un-noticed. Throughout Saturday night, Israel has channeled some of its sophisticated weapons, including helicopters and drones, at very carefully selected targets in the Gaza Strip, an area dominated by the Hamas terrorist organization and bristling with tens of thousands of rockets stashed away inside homes, mosques and hospitals.
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