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Look at the brutality of the Israeli occupation😢#Freedom_Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/wL6C8jyv2c
— Aya Isleem 🇵🇸 #Gaza (@AyaIsleemEn) September 3, 2020
Of course, it is a lie.
I found the original photo and it is of Manar Shweiki, a 16 year old girl who hid a knife in her schoolbag to stab Israelis. She was sentenced to six years in prison under a plea agreement and was released last December.
People automatically believe captions made up by anti-Israel propagandists. Students should really be taught critical thinking starting in first grade, because very few people seem to have that skillset.
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