After the Israeli attack on the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza, in which at least 45 people were killed, the photo “All Eyes on Rafah” became viral on the Internet, with which the world wants to show solidarity with the Palestinian people.
The latest Israeli attacks, which killed at least 45 Palestinians, including many children, in tents full of displaced people in Rafah, Gaza, drew worldwide condemnation. The Tal as-Sultan area, designated as a “safe zone” northwest of Rafah city, was hit by at least eight Israeli missiles.
Support for the campaign has grown worldwide, and many have shared the “All Eyes on Rafah” photo on their social networks as a sign of solidarity with the Palestinian people, and it has been shared 42.5 million times on the Instagram story.
What is the photo “All Eyes on Rafah”
As visuals of charred bodies and those with severe injuries emerged on social media, a photo with the caption “All Eyes on Rafah” was shared more than four million times.
The campaign, led by activists and humanitarian groups, aims to draw attention to the southern city of the Gaza Strip, where people have been forced to live in cramped refugee camps without humanitarian aid.
The photo shows tents in the camp arranged to form the words “All Eyes on Rafah”, urging people not to turn a blind eye to the situation in Gaza’s southernmost city, where around 1.5 million people have sought shelter after fleeing Israeli bombardment.
This is one of the photos of viral activism created by artificial intelligence. The slogan comes from a statement Rik Peeperkorn, director of the WHO’s Office for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, made in February, shortly after Benjamin Netanyahu ordered an evacuation plan for Rafah ahead of attacks targeting what the Israeli prime minister then claimed were the last remaining strongholds militant group Hamas.
Peeperkorn spoke at a news conference as the Israeli military intensified its campaign in the southern Gaza Strip.
“All Eyes on Rafah,” Peeperkorn said at the time.
The statement was almost immediately repurposed by pro-Palestinian and humanitarian groups to draw attention to Gaza and Rafah, which was one of the last remaining locations for displaced Palestinians from other parts of the territory.
Support groups such as Save the Children, Oxfam, Americans for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign have also adopted the slogan, Klix.ba writes.
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