![]() Friedman describes the video, now a familiar type, as having been "fresh and gripping" in 1994, and, arguably, the first of what would soon become an enormous wave of "terror selfies" aimed at projecting the illusion of Islamist military victory. Hezbollah claimed to have captured the outpost and “purified it of Zionists,” and the video caused a brief but anguished public discussion in Israel over the preparedness of the military. It appears to show Hezbollah jihadis capturing an Israeli military position and planting a flag to symbolize victory. But the Hezbollah fighters shot a short, blurry video, which, with a soundtrack of gunfire and martial music, went viral. The attack was brief Hezbollah fighters killed one Israeli soldier and wounded 2 others before withdrawing. Friedman served at the outpost 3 years after the incident. ![]() Terror selfie įriedman describes a brief attack by the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah on the small Israeli army unit, Outpost Pumpkin, in the South Lebanon security zone on October 29, 1994. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story, is a 2016 book by journalist Matti Friedman, published by Algonquin. ![]()
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