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Israelis take cover as a sound of alarm broke near a house damaged by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in the southern city of Ashkelon, Israel, July 16, 2014. Four children on the beach in Gaza City were killed in an Israeli airstrike, raising the overall death toll to over 200 Palestinians as operation 'Protective Edge' enters it's ninth day. One Israeli civilian was killed on July 15 from a direct hit near the Erez Crossing.

Propaganda wars: Searching for a narrative in Operation Protective Edge

No amount of Tweeting, tagging, posting or liking will save Gazans from an Israeli ground invasion. So why bother? By Corey Sherman Recent political upheavals in the Middle East tend to have a social media subplot, whether it’s how savvy youth use it to subvert harsh authority, or how states manipulate access to it so…

By +972 Magazine July 17, 2014

Netanyahu’s ‘hilarious’ response to mounting criticism of Instagram pictures

Just hours after his coalition managed to pass (in its first reading) a racist law to displace over 40,000 Bedouin in the Negev, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got back to what he knows how to do best: waste our time. The chosen venue today? His Instagram account. As Ido Kenan of the “Room 404” blog…

By Ami Kaufman June 25, 2013