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.
Tony
10:14 am
Mar 13, 2012
Abdel
You make a statement soley to stir up more hate than is necessary, You know it,,and We Know it,,, You and your associates,are showing the rest of the world what such Disgusting cowardice makes you smile with arrogance behind your Computer,, ,but,, You are wrong,,, Very wrong in thinking that,,,,that the Human side of humanity, will fall for this depraved arrogance,,You people are more than capable of using These kind of photos, of dead children for your Sick campaigne of anti-Israel propoganda. But Even with the truth Staring you in your faces,, you prefer Arrogance to Humanity.
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Pastor Ortiz
6:55 pm
Mar 14, 2012
Tony; Long Live ISRAEL and our heroes and heroines, we need more and you could be one. I do not know how old are you. Do not give up being in the side of THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL. Please, please, please read THE BOOK OF THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL.
Thus saith THE LORD GOD of JACOB; Psalm 83:1-18 “Keep not thou silence, O GOD hold not thy peace, and be not still, O GOD, For lo thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate THEE have lifted up the head. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the hagarenes; Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; Assur also is joined with them: they have helped the children of Lot. Selah.
Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: Which perished at En-dor: they became as dung for the earth. Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princess as Zebath, and as Zalmunna: Who said, let us take to ourselves the houses of GOD in possesion. O my GOD, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm. Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy NAME,O LORD. Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: that men may know that THOU whose NAME alone is JEHOVAH, art the MOST HIGH over all the earth.”
Tony, we have to get back to trust our GOD, HE, THE MOST HIGH, THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL!!!!
Like Abraham, like Issac, like Jacob, like Moses, like Joshua, Like David, like Isaiah, like Jeremiah, like Ezekiel, Like Daniel, like Ezra and Nehemiah, we need to never give up believing and like Nehemiah who said: “For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded.”
Israel is not stranger to conflicts, and if we have to confront we will, nevertheless, let us put our trust in THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL and not in men.
Past history is on our side: Hitler, Arafat, Nasser, Nero, the Caesars, and those mentioned above, and you just watch Ahmadinejad, Assad, Abbas, Obama, Putin and others today. Let’s believe THE LORD GOD of ISRAEL.
May THE LORD shine HIS FACE upon you and all who love ISRAEL;
Pastor Ortiz
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Earl
9:40 am
Mar 16, 2012
Sounds good, but what has all of your rant have to do with Obama? Seems like he got thrown into the mix jujst because of his name.
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rhoneyman
4:43 pm
Mar 22, 2012
no, obama got tossed in because haters hate and obama is a hate-magnet. the haters ignore the reality that in a time of budget hysteria, israel continues to receive more money from washington than ever before and continues to receive advanced weaponry from the us. but according to the haters, obama hates israel.
imagine, listing obama with the likes of hitler and arafat. but then, haters will hate. it’s what they do.
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bobz
3:26 pm
Mar 13, 2012
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U.N. Media Employee Caught Tweeting Misleading Photo of Bloody Palestinian Child — From 2006 | Being 1732
5:10 pm
Mar 13, 2012
[...] Badawi, who Honest Reporting says works as an Information and Media Coordinator for the United Nations Office for the Coordination [...]
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emes kline
11:00 pm
Mar 13, 2012
To “Honest Harry” – congratulations, you have joined the list of despots with the names beginning with “H” – from Hamen, through to Hitler to Hamas and all those before and after.
Why the incomprehensible ignorance and stupidity attached to this particular tag can only stem from hellenistic sources. Its hatred of Jews and which Israel feeds their miserable souls!
You mention whether this particular incident is 2006 or 2012, it is a sad day for Jews to also know the outcome of recompence – as Golda Meyer once said “We don’t despise those who kill our children, we hate them for making us kill theirs!”
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Tony
12:20 am
Mar 14, 2012
emes Kline,
I’d also like to join you in mentioning another of Golda Meirs Quotes;” When the Arabs start to love their Children ,as much as they hate us Jews, only then will we know Peace.”
Unfortunately The Muslim world has and will always use these Outragous tactics to devile the Jewish People,and Israel. Devistation, in no matter What country ,no matter how harsh the scene,They will always associate these Obscene images to Israels doing.Be they from Iran, Afghanista, Iraq, Lybia,Syria . We see it On their Televisions, they way they “educate their Children,”into becoming Shahids”,they even Blame the Israelis,when they blow themselves up “accidently ,while making suicide bombs.We see it In the Medias, comming out of the mouths of their Leaders;They have done this before and they will Obviously do it again.and again, But As Long as the International Community falls for this Outragous Slander and constant Biased reporting from International and Arab Medias, About Israel. The road to Peace is still A LONG way off.
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Dr Paul G Shane
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Tony
11:47 am
Mar 15, 2012
Dr Paul SHane
Your point of concerne is well noted and understood,,,But would’ nt you say that the subject is BASED on HUMANITY,,”(The Muslims using this little girl as HOSTAGE in a Mediatic war;against Israel.) And if you have been paging thru various social networks and International Medias, you will have seen How they are Manipulating Certain World crisis,, such as the Arab spring atrocities and linking them to Israeli Doings.
These Biased Medias and Photos are what We Jews are fighting against;; As People today tend to Believe What they see in the Medias as the TRUTH.We would obviously prefer the ARAB MUSLIM world to react and portray themselves more TRUTHFULLY & HUMANLY than what they are showing us right now.But Hoping is not going to get us far.
It is very normal for us Jews to react this way when we have to keep on justifying,to the world, our reactions and reasons.for everything we do and are accused of doing.For there are not many who will do it for us. That ,I would say is our side of humanity, Proving to the world that WE ARE NOT LIKE THE MUSLIMS AND WORLD MEDIAS PORTRAY US .
When have the Jews ever published such atrocities in world medias to Degrade or undermine the Muslims,?? NEVER, So we use WORDS,,that might appear to you as ,”Dehuminizing”,we are after all,, Only Human beings,,,But it is a means of expression ,of some deep pain in us that we wish to extract. Never,,Does Israel use This kind of propoganda to ease our conscience in the eyes of the International Community. So you cannot blame The Jews for using this form of expression.
Some of us might be aware that we should not be doing it,, But after all we are only Human.
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More U.N. Officials Step Up to Push Anti-Israel Smears and Pro-Hamas Propaganda « Commentary Magazine
4:20 pm
Mar 15, 2012
[...] The entire thing was a fabrication. The photo wasn’t taken this week and the girl wasn’t hurt by Israeli munitions. The picture was actually snapped by Reuters in 2006, and the girl had fallen off a swing. Honest Reporting ran down the original. [...]
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More UN Officials Step Up to Push Anti-Israel Smears and Pro-Hamas Propaganda | Presstitution™
4:40 pm
Mar 15, 2012
[...] The entire thing was a fabrication. The photo wasn’t taken this week and the girl wasn’t hurt by Israeli munitions. The picture was actually snapped by Reuters in 2006, and the girl had fallen off a swing. Honest Reporting ran down the original. [...]
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Dusty Rhodes
11:32 am
Mar 16, 2012
The UN is, and always has been a one world organization. Alger Hiss, a US State Dept official and co-author of the UN charter was convicted and sent to prison by the US House committee on un-American activities for his communist, subversive activities. The UN will stop at nothing to foment war, and solidify world control for themselves.
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Stanbitruth
11:33 pm
Mar 18, 2012
The world is in an unfortunate state. These heartbreaking photos of innocent children are used by devious liars and breeders of hate. These people were born out of a womb of poison. Hate is all they know and all they follow. What a disgusting way of life, what a waste of a many generations.
Filth and vile acts, by the scum of otherwise beautiful world. Syrians are the example right now, most likely collecting photos of the murder of their own. These photos will be used in an attack on Israel in the media at a future opportunistic date.
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Tweet mit falschem Foto: UNO leitet Untersuchung ein « Medien BackSpin
7:14 pm
Mar 19, 2012
[...] auf Botschafter Ron Prosors Brief, die UnO leite eine interne Untersuchung zu Khulood Badawis Tweet mit falschem Foto [...]
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Boris Kushnir
8:13 am
Mar 20, 2012
I don’t give a dam how much you hate us, it’s a level of your stupidity so don’t impose this on other monkeys as you are. Unfortunately when somebody hate somebody they have a brain damage and must be cured by the mental hospitals!!! You have a right, especially as a journalist, to post only materials but you don’t have a right, especially for the money that tax payers paying you (UN is a nonprofit organization, that must be funded by all countries, it means same as by the tax payers money), in any way to antagonize any propaganda that creates heathenness and creates terrorists funded by maniacs as Axmaxedjuns and Komaynees!!!
Just for your expression that you hate a state of Israel and Jewish people placing on you professional responsibility in breaching the code of the professional conducts!!! No common sense law can be allowed expressions like yours!!! It only idiots that financially supported by Axmahedjusns or Komeynees can act as you do!!! But any media, especially UN can’t allow you to explore it publicly. UN actions and code of conducts must be investigated truly to insure that there is no corruption by suckers as Axmahedjusns or Komeynees…??? It’s a common sense that more you hate us, the more you kill your kids…!!! Hope you can get the common sense of your stupidity in my meaning…!!! Before I will even see the picture, it means just by the nature of your comment, your journalist license must be suspended and you must be prosecuted for a crime against humanity!!! It doesn’t matter who are professionals, whether Palestinian or Jewish code of conduct is a code of conduct and if the UN, till this dates don’t have those regulations it’s a shame to the UN. People then don’t need to have the UN!!!
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DemoCast: How tolerating Islamism and anti-Zionism creates … | Presstitution™
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[...] of others and continue to circulate around the web, despite having been thoroughly disproved. (Honest Reporting). Melanie Philips addresses the mainstream media’s complicity in rationalizing Muslim [...]
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Top Tweet on Gaza Proven False « A Lot Of Coffee and Sleepless Nights
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Mar 23, 2012
[...] From Honest Reporting [...]
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jacko
8:20 am
Mar 23, 2012
Bardawi will never put this on twitter or facebook . All the anti semites Christian Moslem and Jewish only wish to show Israel in a bad light.
Nearly 200,000 West Bank Palestinian patients and those accompanying them were granted permits in 2011 for medical
treatment in Israel, a 13 percent increase from 2010, according to a Foreign Ministry report. The report… will be submitted
Wednesday to the Palestinian donors’ conference meeting in Brussels. In addition, according to the report, some 21,500
Palestinian children from the West Bank were treated in Israeli hospitals last year, a 171% increase from the year before.
The 44-page report documents areas of Israeli-Palestinian cooperation in a number of health, economic, and security
spheres. http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=262350
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TAKE ACTION NOW: Urge UN To Dismiss Official Whom Committed Libel Against Israel | ISRAEL TRIBUNE
8:02 am
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[...] one Khulood Badawi, paid by U.S. and European taxpayers, has blatantly spread lies about Israel. This “official” (liar and inciter of violence) tried to pawn off a photo on Twitter whic… This picture, taken in 2006 by Reuters, had already been used to smear Israel, but Reuters [...]
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wills
3:16 am
Mar 27, 2012
stupid. as if worse hasn’t happend in gaza and is continuing to happen as we speak. how many little girls have been killed by the idf. who cares if we have pictures of them or not.
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ita
9:23 pm
Mar 28, 2012
How come that Arabs can’t handdle themselfs without lies , Big lies, small lies, stupid lies, any kind of lies ?? How come that all evil of the world terror being held by Arabs ?? What is with the Arabs that they can’t live peacfuly
even between themselfs ?? What is the ampty amition to rull the history ??? Why Arabs value death and don’t value precios of life ??? About picturs : Arabs of Gaza have no exsistance without the lies that lies in the pictures that have nothing to the truth in any givin time !!! The Jewish nation is the only one that survive 3000 year and the only one that cameback to his land , revive his old land and language and rebulid a new beautifull and strong democracy state , the state of Israel.
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jacko
4:11 pm
Mar 29, 2012
a scorpiom wanted to get to the other side of the river so he asked the frog to give him a ride. The frog said you will sting me and i will die. The scorpion said if you die so will I, so the frog took him on his back to cross the river. on the way over the xcorpion stung the frog . With his dying breath the frog said why did you do that . the scorpin said i am a scorpion and that is what I do. The same with Arabs they cannot tell the truth even to themselves, why because Arabs cannot tell the truth and all their troubles are always caused by some one else and never themselves
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