icon, n. An image; a representation. A representation or picture of a sacred or sanctified Christian personage. An important and enduring symbol. One who is the object of great attention and devotion; an idol.
Errant Shell Turns Girl Into Palestinian Icon
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip, June 11 — Huda Ghaliya, the sixth-grade student whose horrified screams on Friday as she knelt by her dead family on a Gaza beach were televised around the world, has quickly become an icon of the Palestinian struggle against Israeli might.Eleven-year-old Huda unwittingly became a symbol of Palestinian pain and loss during an afternoon picnic with her family on a hot day when a cameraman captured her shrieking "Father, Father, Father!" as she hovered over the bloody bodies of 13 dead or wounded members of her family, hit by what was apparently an errant Israeli artillery shell.
These guys should write movies, not news reports.
More's the pity that no one will even see the Correction buried in the Times next week, should it turn out that Hamas is indeed responsible for the beach deaths.
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