Hundreds of children are among those killed as Israeli pounds the Gaza Strip with air strikes and prepares a ground offensive against Hamas, which plunged the region into war with a bloody attack.
But a photo spreading online of dead boys and girls swaddled in cloth -- amplified by a US lawmaker -- does not show slain Palestinian youth; the picture was taken in Syria in 2013.at of October 17 in the densely populated territory, which is governed by the militant group Hamas and has been under a blockade for years.Hundreds of children have died in the conflict.
"The Congresswoman retweeted it very briefly, and immediately took down the retweet when she learned it was not from Gaza," Jeremy Slevin, Omar's senior advisor, told AFP in an October 17 email.
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