Panos Pictures
29 July, 2006
Paramedics hold up the dead body of a child before members of the press. The boy's body had been recovered from the rubble of an apartment building, after an Israeli air attack. Both sides in the conflict in Lebanon were accused of manipulating the media to their own ends. Allegations were made - largely by bloggers over the Internet - that situations had been staged for the press for propaganda purposes.
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