The article confirms the report of earlier this week on the BBC that the Israeli army, on a blog, forged pictures of life in Gaza in order to the situation in Gaza ('to debunk the myth that Israel’s naval blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip has turned the area into an “open-air prison,” as this article in the Times of Israel has it, 'An Israeli military blog reportedly used a photo of a shopping mall thousands of miles away in a post designed to prove that Gaza was not an "open-air prison",' as the BBC had it
The Times of Israel article then continues referring to apparently mis-referred photo's of Gaza by the 'other side', using a photo from 2006 bombings for a 2009 report and so on.
A difference however is that if the 'other side' apparently misquoted or mis-attributed material, in the Israeli side's case the misbehaviour comes from the army, a state institution, and more precisely the self-proclaimed 'most just army in the world' from 'the only democracy in the Middle-East'. While this campaign had been going on for a long while.
16 August 2013 Last updated at 16:16 GMT
Altered Images: Malaysian mall 'illustrated life in Gaza'
The Suria KLCC mall lies at the foot of Kuala Lumpur's Petronas twin towers
An Israeli military blog reportedly used a photo of a shopping mall thousands of miles away in a post designed to prove that Gaza was not an "open-air prison".
Titled What Happened to the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) post features photographs purporting to show Gazans playing volleyball on the beach, a luxury hotel, modern supermarket and images reflecting nightlife in the Palestinian territory. At the end, it quotes a tweet from @IDFSpokesperson - now apparently deleted - reading: "People say there is a humanitarian crisis in #Gaza. The hotels, beaches, malls & nightlife say otherwise. #MythBusted". However, the picture of a mall later became conspicuous by its absence.
The Jerusalem-based Times of Israel explains: "The pictures did indeed show a different reality to the Gaza the world has become accustomed to seeing... but there was a slight problem with one of the snaps... The gorgeous mall in the photograph is not actually in Gaza. It is, rather, the Suria KLCC mall… in Kuala Lumpur." The photograph had initially been called into question by comments suggesting it showed a mall in Hyderabad, India, before it was identified as the Malaysian centre. The blog later issued a correction admitting: "A photo previously included in this article was incorrectly sourced. It has been removed."
1 opmerking:
Het plaatsen van de foto wan een "innocent mistake".
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