Why Israel is losing the social media war over Gaza

Channel 4 News | Why Israel is losing the social media war over Gaza

For the first time in a major Arab-Israeli conflict, the world has access to non-traditional sources of reality such as Twitter – and it means Israel is losing the battle for hearts and minds.

Related Tweets:

4 attacks on 4 UN schools in 4 days. UNRWA gave Israel the GPS coordinates. This is nothing but intentional bombing of the schools. #Gaza

— Remi Kanazi (@Remroum) July 25, 2014

Gallup: 31% of US Democrats said Israel's actions in Gaza justified. 47% unjustified. Independents: 36% justifed, 46% unjustifed 1/2

— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) July 25, 2014

"I saw no evidence of Hamas using Palestinians as human shields" http://t.co/9hABESBGci

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) July 25, 2014

Richard Engel: UNWRA says it conveyed location of "safe" school 12 times to Israel, including just before attack. http://t.co/9dUzQWwLqx

— Greg Mitchell (@GregMitch) July 25, 2014

House of my mom's colleague, a gynaecologist, was shelled by Israeli tanks in #Khanyounis near our home forcing my family to evacuate. #Gaza

— Jehan Alfarra (@palinoia) July 25, 2014

German astronaut orbiting the earth:

My saddest photo yet. From #ISS we can actually see explosions and rockets flying over #Gaza & #Israel pic.twitter.com/jNGWxHilSy

— Alexander Gerst (@Astro_Alex) July 23, 2014