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Photo of bloody shoe is not from school massacre Israeli photographer 'horrified' at use of bloody shoe photo
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It's a tragic, heartbreaking image - but not for the reason you think.It's a tragic, heartbreaking image - but not for the reason you think.
A photo of a small child's bloody shoe has been widely shared on Twitter and Facebook in the wake of a Taliban attack on a school in Pakistan that's left at least 135 people dead - most of them children.A photo of a small child's bloody shoe has been widely shared on Twitter and Facebook in the wake of a Taliban attack on a school in Pakistan that's left at least 135 people dead - most of them children.
One tweeter says: "This image says its all #PeshawarAttack".One tweeter says: "This image says its all #PeshawarAttack".
But the photo is not recent. A search on the photo-lookup site TinEye reveals it has been used in the past by both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.But the photo is not recent. A search on the photo-lookup site TinEye reveals it has been used in the past by both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The European Pressphoto Agency (EPA), who owns the copyright to another photo showing a seemingly identical bloodstained child's shoe against a different background, says it was taken in Ashkelon in May 2008. In that incident, a rocket was fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza into Israel, injuring dozens. BBC Trending tracked down the photographer, Edi Israel, who says he took the photo while working as a freelancer in Ashkelon in May 2008. In that incident, a rocket was fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza into Israel, injuring dozens.
The EPA told the BBC the agency does not own the copyright to the photo of the bloody shoe held in a hand. "I'm horrified to know that the picture has moved to Pakistan, and that it's being used like that," Edi Israel says. "This is a known phenomenon that people take a photo from one place and use it like it was elsewhere."
BBC Trending will continue to investigate the origins of the photos and update this story as we get more information. The "recycling" of shocking photos is indeed common on social media in the wake of attacks - for instance we reported on the sharing of old images under the hashtag #GazaUnderAttack earlier this year.
Edi Israel says he photographed the bloody shoe after it was dropped on the ground in a mall by a mother and daughter who were injured in the Ashkelon rocket attack. They both survived the incident; Israel visited them in hospital the following week.
The photographer, who has a long career in the region, says he wasn't aware his picture was being passed around in connection with the Peshawar attack until he was contacted by the BBC.
Meanwhile, another picture has been circulating online of victims of the Peshawar massacre - but the montage of images includes the photo of a young boy, Noah Pozner, who died in the Sandy Hook massacre in the United States in 2012.
Reporting by Gemma NewbyReporting by Gemma Newby
h/t Richard Vadon h/t Richard Vadon and Samiha Nettikkara
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