The Picture

Another one in the series of this picture was also published by Financial Times on page 2 of its Thursday, August 10, 2006.

I found the story told by these pictures very moving when I first saw the one in Financial Times.

In Financial Times, the picture has a smaller frame and all you see is the fingers of a soothing hand on Fadi's right sholder. His left cheek rests on the head of of the body of his son, whose body has been wrapped in a shroud. (See below for the picture.)

The Financial Times caption for the photo says this:

Fadi Dahaineh holds the body yesterday of his 20-month-old son Mohammed, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut.

Other reports, like the one by Britain's Guardian (see below), indicate that Fadi's wife was killed in the same strike.

CNN has also published the photo.

Another in the series has been published by Seattle Post-Intelligencer.




Norman Finkelstein has blogged about the photo.

The BBC published the picture at the bottom of this report.

The Guardian gives the story behind the picture a more prominent place in this report. It carries the following caption for the following picture:

Fadi Dahaineh mourns over the bodies of his wife and son killed in an Israeli air strike. Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP