An image depicting tents in a camp aimed at raising awareness of the plight of Gaza has gone viral.
A phrase calling for the world to pay attention to the plight of people in Gaza is gaining momentum on social media months after it was uttered.
The words «All Eyes on Rafah» depicted by the arrangement of tents in a desert backdrop form a striking tableau, which has gone viral following Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city on Sunday that caused makeshift shelters to burst into flames with their occupants still inside, killing at least 45 people.
The attack prompted calls for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to enforce its ruling demanding that Israel cease its attack on Rafah. Israel said the strikes targeted and killed two senior Hamas officials, and that the fire may have been caused by an explosion at a Hamas weapons store nearby.
As of Wednesday, the «All Eyes on Rafah» slogan had received tens of millions of views and among celebrities who shared it, mostly via Instagram stories, were Bella Hadid, Australian comedian Celeste Barber, actor Aaron Paul and Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan. On X, it had received 6.5 million views as of Wednesday.
Marc Owen Jones, an associate professor of Middle East studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar who studies misinformation, told NBC the image, in which the tent camp is unusually symmetrical, looked AI-generated.
