The picture from Gaza seemed like so many other conflict zone photos — until you began to notice the details.
The lifeless arm of a Palestinian boy cradled by an adult running across the beach. The sand studded with what looks like brush, but is really pieces of something shattered. A small child lies face down in the sand, legs jutting out at odd angles, seemingly struck dead.
Tyler Hicks/@nytimes http://bitly.com/1o6CrCI
— Carlos Saul Duque (@saulduque) July 17, 2014
The picture, shot by the New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks, quickly became one of the most discussed pictures of the conflict. With heartbreaking clarity, it showed the faces of a few of the Palestinian civilian victims killed by Israeli rockets, and quickly ricocheted around Twitter and Facebook Read more...
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