If you’ve been on Instagram in the past 48 hours, you will more than likely have seen the AI-generated “All Eyes on Rafah” image. It’s now been shared more than 44 million times.
Having a relatively palatable AI image go viral, while real on-the-ground footage is regularly being hidden by Meta’s algorithm, has caused real debate online. Some are calling it performative, while others believe that “regardless of the means, the message and momentum is needed.” @Mashable has more.
Was bedeutet die Kontrolle des Philadelphi-Korridors für Israel?
Nachdem Israels Armee einen wichtigen Versorgungskorridor der Hamas eingenommen hat, spricht ein Offizier von einem Wendepunkt in dem Krieg. Die Kämpfe dürften aber nun noch einmal intensiver werden. Von Julio Segador.
The Israeli military has lifted a ban on the sale of food to Gaza from Israel & the occupied #WestBank as its battlefield offensive chokes international aid, acc/to #Palestinian officials, businessmen (sic) & international aid workers.
The amount of humanitarian aid entering Gaza has dropped by 67% since Israel launched a military offensive in the southern city of Rafah earlier this month, the United Nations has warned.
Of course it has. That was one of Israel’s aims in taking the Rafah crossing.
“I saw bodies everywhere. Children burning. I saw heads without bodies, the injured running around in pain, some alive but trapped inside burning tents.”
~ Zuhair, a lawyer sheltering in a tent in Rafah with his family, on the Israel attack on the tent camp
"Where is Joe Biden’s fury about decapitated Palestinian babies? Politicians parroted untrue rumors that Hamas had beheaded Israeli babies. When the children are Palestinian, they shrug."
The Royal Air Force is flying reconnaissance and intelligence gathering missions over #Gaza in support of the #IDF, and has been since the outset of the Israeli assault.
What does the RAF know about the attack on #Rafah at the weekend? Is the RAF complicit in war crimes?
"On Wednesday, the saying was once again trending, this time through what appears to be an #AI -generated image showing a field of refugee tents spelling out “All Eyes on #Rafah.” One version of the graphic has been shared more than 38 million times on #Instagram."
Displaced Palestinians inspect their tents destroyed by Israel’s bombardment, adjunct to a UNRWA facility west of Rafah city, Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
« Trop peu, trop tard. On ne peut qualifier autrement la pudibonderie des mots d’Emmanuel #Macron face à la guerre génocidaire qui se poursuit dans la bande de #Gaza. »