China News Service, May 18, 17th, a series of "strange style" tweets on a social media account of the Israeli government caused controversy.
In the many tweets sent, there was no text, only a series of rocket symbol emojis; it was not until the last two tweets that the account explained that the released rocket emojis represented “the total number of rockets launched against Israeli civilians”, and Ask "Every rocket has an (attack) address. If that was your address, what would you do?"
Image source: Screenshot of a tweet from a social media account of the Israeli government.
According to the account’s profile, this is an Israeli government-certified account managed by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ digital diplomacy team.
Image source: An introduction to a social media account of the Israeli government.
Originally, it seemed that Israel wanted to use this to win the sympathy and goodwill of the people, but it backfired, and a series of tweets attracted more criticism.
Some netizens released the expressions of the Palestinian flag to express their solidarity to the victims of the air raid; or they posted relevant charts to compare the data on the disparity between the deaths and injuries of the two sides in the Palestine-Israel conflict from 2008 to 2020, and received tens of thousands of likes... …
Image source: screenshots of social networking site netizens' comments
Some netizens even pointed out that "Now copy these (rocket emoji) tweets 1,000 times, and we get the number of rockets used by Israel against Palestinian civilians." Some netizens called for a ceasefire, pointing out that "children are dying"...
Image source: screenshots of social networking site netizens' comments
Since Ramadan in mid-April, there have been conflicts between Palestine and Israel.
Serious clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police broke out on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem on May 7 and 10, triggering an exchange of fire between Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip and Israel.
The Israeli air strikes on Gaza, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) fired rockets to fight back.
According to the latest news, 10 people have died in Israel and about 50 people have been seriously injured. The Palestinian death toll caused by Israeli air strikes has reached 212, including 61 children.
In the early morning of May 17, 2021, local time, Israeli warplanes continued to strike the Palestinian Gaza Strip. Fire and smoke rose over buildings in the Gaza Strip.
On May 17, US President Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Biden expressed support for the ceasefire between Palestine and Israel.
The White House issued a statement on the 17th that Biden reiterated his “firm support” for Israel’s right to self-defense and encouraged Israel to make every effort to ensure the safety of innocent civilians.
The escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has also aroused serious concern in the international community. In Washington, the capital of the United States, the largest city in New York, in Montreal, Canada, in the German capitals of Berlin and Frankfurt, Hamburg, in the Greek capital of Athens, in the Spanish capital of Madrid... people in many places demonstrated and protested in support of Palestine.