Battleground Twitter

As the Gaza conflict rages online, is social media now an instrument of war?

  1. @AJStream Only Israel can sell a massacre like they're promoting a movie. They take war crimes and massacres to an artform #gazaunderattack
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  3. Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz posted this timeline of hashtags used to document the Gaza conflict on Twitter. The competing hashtags include #PrayForGaza, which has far surpassed #PrayForIsrael in its number of mentions. 
  4. You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools, but our spirit will never die. We will not go down in Gaza tonight. #PrayForGaza
  5. #PrayForIsrael !! israel's under fire. no school's tomorrow. routine has stopped. kids are praying for their lives!!!
  6. #PrayForIsrael and #PrayForGaza please God just make them stop killing each other , I pray for all because it's about humanity .
  7. People on the ground in Gaza used Twitter to post live updates even after power had gone out:
  8. After the military strike that killed Hamas commander Ahmad Jabari, the Israeli army went on a Twitter offensive, tweeting updates on the operation as well as this image of Jabari:
  9. The video footage of the Israeli army's airstrike that killed Hamas commander Ahmad Jabari has been viewed more than 700,000 times in less than 24 hours. The video was briefly removed for violating YouTube's terms of service but later reinstated. 
  10. Questions were also raised after the Israeli army account tweeted this threat to Hamas operatives in Gaza. Twitter's terms of service prohibit "direct, specific threats of violence against others".  
  11. We recommend that no Hamas operatives, whether low level or senior leaders, show their faces above ground in the days ahead.
  12. The official account for the Hamas military wing @AlqassamBrigade has also posted updates and responded to the Israeli army's threat: 
  13. @idfspokesperson Our blessed hands will reach your leaders and soldiers wherever they are (You Opened Hell Gates on Yourselves)
  14. Information also spread quickly before events had become clear, such as this video which purported to show Hamas rockets in Tel Aviv. 

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