Top Tweet on Gaza Proven False
March 12, 2012 11:17 by GuestPostThis article is republished courtesy of the IDF Blog.
Two photos tweeted in the past 24 hours, both allegedly depicting the results of Israeli air strikes in Gaza in recent days, have been proven false.
1. The photo first tweeted by Khulood Badawi (@KhuloodBadawi) and later by Diana Alzeer (@ManaraRam), allegedly depicting a Palestinian girl killed by an Israeli air strike yesterday, was proven to have originated in 2006 and to have had nothing at all to do with Israeli action. This photo is now the top tweet for #Gaza, with over 300 retweets. It is completely false.
Badawi first tweeted the picture at noon on March 10, claiming it was linked to last night’s air strikes. Alzeer tweeted it on March 11, claiming the same.
HONESTREPORTING UPDATE: Khulood Badawi is exposed as an employee of the United Nations. Read the full story here - EXPOSED: UN Media Official Responsible for False Photo Tweet
Both were refuted by tweeter Avi Mayer (@avimayer), who found that the photo dated back to 2009 at least.
Further research revealed that the photo was taken in 2006 by Reuters, and that the girl, initially thought to have been killed in an Israeli air strike, was injured in a car accident. When confronted with this information, Alzeer stated that the photo was taken last night and forwarded to the press that day.
In fact, the photo was taken by Reuters on August 9, 2006. It was originally released with an incorrect caption, and then corrected a day later:
A Palestinian man carries the body of three year-old Raja Abu Shaban, in Gaza August 9, 2006. The three-year-old girl who had been reported killed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza on Wednesday actually died of an accident, Palestinian medical workers said on Thursday. Workers at Gaza’s Shifa hospital said on August 10, 2006 that the initial mistake over the cause of death appeared to have arisen because the girl’s corpse was brought in at the same time as the bodies of the gunmen. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES)
Correction published on August 10th, 2006
Alzeer later published an apology and withdrew her claims. Badawi has yet to respond.
The original tweets, however, have already been picked up by hundreds of others and continue to circulate around the web, despite having been thoroughly disproved.
Sylvie Schapira
4:57 pm
Mar 29, 2012
Lies and distortion of the truth come just as much from the British Media as they do from Arab sources. And we all know that the more a lie is repeated the more it sounds like the truth. The influential people in the BBC, The Guardian and the Independent were at university when Arab oil money was sent to British universities. Arab speakers were allowed to travel to the U.K. and spread their bigotry to the impressionable minds of British university students because of the oil-rich donations. The father of all this hate was professor Edward Said. His book ‘Orientalism’ and others was read avidly by U.K. students in the 1970′s and ’80′s. Those same students are the ones writing anti-Israel propaganda, and the BBC T.V. programme makers do the same.
One of the lies in particular is that the Arabs living in the region are ‘Palestinian’. This makes no sense whatsoever. Firstly, it is not even an Arabic word. The Romans coined the word. And the Council of the League of Nations (pre United Nations) used the word to describe a geographical area; not a State. But the word was used later to describe the Jewish people prior to the name Israel being chosen for the new Jewish State. In fact there are Arabs on record who have testified that: ‘There is no such country (as Palestine)! Palestine is the term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria’. (Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi). The Arabs fabricated their origins following the Six-Day War. Other Arab countries were not interested in supporting their claim until they began to realise that the ‘Palestinians’ were gaining support from Leftist sympathisers in the West. It then became a mantra that could be used to demand the Right of Return of Arab refugees, and the delegitimisation of Israel. Islam is an ideology that wishes to make the entire Arab lands free of the infidel (or judenrein…).
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bernard van de cremer
10:03 pm
Apr 20, 2012
Indeed, the Romans were so furious about the revolt of the Jews, that they decided to eradicate
even the name Judea , Samaria e.o. and to replace it by Palestine, meaning the area on both sides of the Jordan river. One can see the oldest map of Palestine at the floor mosaic in the church of Mabada, south of Amman. Also, the whole PLO top vehemently declared in an article published by the Dutch daily TROUW in the seventies, that Jordan is also Palestine… And indeed, the Jordanian government is very anxious about that and therefore issued a decree that forbids to use the word Palestine for Jordan… But we all know better, Jordan is also part of the region Palestine and for me there is no Palestinian etnic people. Yes there are Palestinian Arabs as there Palestinian Jews and both live in the state of Israel. But Palestinian Jews are not allowed to live in the first Palestinian Arab state ( 1921) : Jordan. And Arafat himself declared: the way to Tel-Aviv goes via Amman. Well he tried in september 1970 but lost the battle.
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Mr. Light-Bright
8:35 pm
Mar 29, 2012
“photo was taken in 2006 by Reuters, and that the girl, initially thought to have been killed in an Israeli air strike, was injured in a car accident.”
Diana Alzeer dismisses the claims.
Latter Diana Alzeer “Warning/Apology: Photo I tweeted earlier which has been circulated over FB turns out to be a old photo of raja Abu Sha’ban killed in Gaza 2006″
So.. that still sounds like a possible Israeli kill when it WASN’T! Anyways… people who perpetuate a liar such as this must be held responsible.
And so they will be… “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”
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Phillip Blanton
5:04 pm
Apr 15, 2012
Mr. Light Bright,
I thought the same thing. When Diana Alzeer “apologized”…
“Warning/Apology: Photo I tweeted earlier which has been circulated over FB turns out to be a old photo of raja Abu Sha’ban killed in Gaza 2006?
She carefully crafted the “apology” in a way that sounds as if the little girl was still killed by an Israeli attack on Gaza; giving her plausible deniability, she can say, “Hey I apologized”, but her lying agenda was still advanced.
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Pastor Ortiz
9:14 pm
Mar 29, 2012
Ita and Jacko: I agree with you two, nevertheless, please, do not turn yourself into a “scorpion” or a “liar” like them. Now, I dared anybody of these “scorpions” or “liars” to find a Koran cuote or verse or truth like the “TORAH” says: Proverbs 29:12 ‘If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.” Another, Proverbs 29:10 ” The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul” One more; Proverbs 29:24 “Whosoever is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and betrayeth it not.”
We have to get back to GOD’S BOOK, the TORAH, it gives us direction, wisdom, and the fear of THE LORD that we so much need. Not to say it gives us hope of the future. Listen to this from the TORAH, Proverbs 29:18 “Where there is no vision the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.”
I challenge any Muslim who says he follows the Koran, find me something like I quoted above similar to those truths, and I challenge you to compare your lies, your hate and your murders and see if there is not a difference.
Genesis 15:18 “In the same day THE LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:”
May GOD bless ISRAEL,
Pastor Ortiz, Sr.
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Len Kurtz
12:13 am
Jun 21, 2012
Actually the 2009 photo makes sense. Apparently, the debris from the explosion is still hanging in the air. it has not descended yet. I got the tip from someone who sold me swampland in the Arctic.
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Sylvie Schapira
10:40 am
Jun 21, 2012
Whether Muslims follow the Koran? What the ‘believers’ must do to be true Muslims is to follow in the footsteps of Muhammed. Muhammed was very explicit about the killing of the infidel; and of lying to the infidel if ‘a Muslim feels oppressed’. This is a ‘legitimate’ form of lying and is called takiyya. Let us get informed about Islam so that we can understand the culture, thinking, behaviour and goals. You cannot compare the Torah with the Koran or the Sunna. They are completely different. (Pastor Ortiz). Honour killing is also a huge part of Muhammed’s teaching. Muslims must not be ‘humiliated’. There are only 3 choices for infidels: Convert (submit) dhimmitude or die by the sword.
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