

This selfie of a Palestinian supposedly outrunning two Israeli military personnel has spread like wildfire on social networking sites. It’s easy to understand why: Anyone who has the time to take a selfie while being chased by gun-toting soldiers has to be fairly gutsy. But, as you might expect, it’s fake.



The original tweet posted on February 2.

This selfie of a Palestinian supposedly outrunning two Israeli military personnel has spread like wildfire on social networking sites. It’s easy to understand why: Anyone who has the time to take a selfie while being chased by gun-toting soldiers has to be fairly gutsy. But, as you might expect, it’s fake.





It was first posted on the Twitter account of a Palestinian rapper and then retweeted a whopping 12,000 times. Internet users called it ‘priceless’, and most who shared seemed pretty convinced it was real.