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In a humanitarian response to the horrific images of the Israeli massacre of displaced people in a camp in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, on Sunday, a massive global solidarity campaign was launched on social media under the slogan “All Eyes on Rafah,” with the participation of celebrities from art and sports.
The campaign began with an image showing a view from above of the city being crowded with camps for defenseless displaced people in a limited geographical area, and the phrase “ALL EYES ON RAFAH/All Eyes on Rafah” was written using white tents in the middle of the scene.
The photo was published by a young man, who turned out to be a Malaysian, who created it to highlight the ongoing massacre and the expected atrocities if the Israeli military movements expand in Rafah, according to what he said on his account on the Instagram platform.
The image was widely circulated all over the world, exceeding 41 million shares on Wednesday afternoon, becoming the most widespread image, especially in terms of its content supporting Gaza and Palestine, which is subject to electronic harassment from those in charge of various websites.
Perhaps what helped the image spread without hesitation is that it does not show any direct scene of violence: no blood, no dead, no wounded, or even destruction.
Just stacked tents were enough to push tens of millions of people, including celebrities, to express for the first time their denunciation of the Israeli war on Gaza, and to demand that their governments work to stop it and stop supporting Tel Aviv diplomatically and militarily.
The most prominent celebrities who shared the photo include the famous football player David Beckham, the singer Dua Lipa, the American actress Jenna Ortega, the Irish actress Nicola Coughlan, and the actress Cate Blanchett, who recently sparked controversy after wearing a dress in the colors of the Palestinian flag during her participation in the Cannes Film Festival in France. .
Turkish actress Pinar Deniz, Turkish actors Kakan Ganjioglu and Mehmet Yilmaz, who recently became famous for the series “The Judiciary”, Iraqi artist Kazem Al-Saher, and others also participated in the global campaign.
Despite the creation of similar posts, “All Eyes on Rafah” remained the most widely shared, noting that the creator of the original image later shared similar posts that also seemed to be popular, describing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “war criminal,” “child killer,” and “genocide.” .
On Sunday evening alone, 45 Palestinians were killed and 249 others were injured, most of them children and women, in an Israeli bombing that targeted the tents of displaced people in the Tal al-Sultan area, northwest of the city of Rafah.
Since Sunday night, Israel has been successively bombing Rafah, as the media office in the Gaza Strip announced on Tuesday that 72 displaced Palestinians were killed within 48 hours by bombing their tents in areas that the Israeli army claimed were safe.
Israel continues its military operations in Rafah, which is crowded with displaced people, ignoring the decision of the International Court of Justice to stop the attack on the city and open its land border crossing with Egypt.
The Rafah massacres coincided with the Israeli army expanding its incursion at dawn on Tuesday, sending it with a new brigade to join 5 others in the city, becoming 3 kilometers from the seashore, and approaching geographically isolating the sector from Egyptian territory.
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