At the end of October 2023, the image appeared in social networks, the first page of the fresh number of the British edition, on which the countries of the world were divided into those who advocated an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East, and those who are against. We decided to check if this picture is true.
The image of the supposedly fresh issue The Independent began to spread in the Russian -speaking segment of the network on October 27. According to the assurances of bloggers published, this is an illustration that only three countries support the continuation of the war in the Middle East: Israel, the USA and the UK. This, in particular, wrote Telegram channels about this "Mriya"(313,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Militarist"(234,000),"Crimean z laundress 🧺🧼"(129,000),"Ostashko! Important"(110 000),"Sheikh Tamir"(105,000) and"Scott Ritter in Telegram"(103,000).
On October 7, 2023, the militants of the Palestinian group of Hamas, which controls the gas sector, attacked cities and settlements in the south of Israel. After that, Israel began the bombing of Hamas strategic objects, while blocking the supply of fuel, water and electricity to the Palestinian enclave.
Posts in social networks with the image of the supposedly fresh issue The Independent appeared on the eve of the vote in the UN Security Council The project of the resolution, proposed by a group of Arab countries led by Jordan. The document called for the immediate cessation of fire and the protection of the civilian population of Gaza. At the same time, the amendment of Canada, which proposed to introduce a paragraph to condemn the Hamas attack on civilians of Israel, was rejected. As a result for the resolution voted 120 countries, against - 14, another 45 abstained.
Thus, the picture supposedly from the fresh number The Independent is at least not true. Not three, but 14 countries opposed the resolution on the ceasefire, while the UK abstained from voting.
If you carefully look at the viral picture, then there is a solution to the upper right corner. Despite the low image quality, you can consider the date - Friday, July 21, 2006.
The editorial article The Independent is valid that day was dedicated The war in the Middle East, but another: the conflict of Israel and Lebanon. July 12, 2006 militants of the Shiite Group "Hezbollah" subjected The missile and mortar shelling of the north of Israel, penetrated from Lebanon into the country's territory and stole two Israeli troops (later it turned out that they were injured during the attack and later died in captivity). Israel in response He began a massive bombardment Lebanon. Within a month there was a full -scale hostilities, and the UN tried several times to achieve a ceasefire.
Article, published In the issue of The Independent for July 21, 2006, condemned the British foreign policy, accusing Prime Minister Tony Blair of blindly following American interests. The illustration on the first page reflected not the results of the vote according to any particular resolution, but the condemnation or support of the military operations of Israel as a whole.
In addition, back in March 2016, the release of the printed version of The Independent was stoppedand since that time, the British newspaper is released only in electronic form. The numbers of the rooms are as close as possible to the printed one, but now the publication has another design, radically different from the viral image.
Thus, for the fresh issue of the British newspaper in October 2023, the old issue of The Independent, dedicated to the 2006 Lebanon-Israeli War, is issued.
Photo on the cover: social networks
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