What looked like a bizarre hack of Israel's official X account was actually a powerful diplomatic message: each rocket emoji represents a real missile fired at Israeli civilians by Hezbollah since October 7th.
The Foreign Ministry's social media team posted approximately 14,900 rocket emojis in a thread that took users several minutes to scroll through. "Each emoji represents one rocket fired by Hezbollah at Israeli civilians since October 7, 2023," the account explained.
"It'll take you a long time to scroll through. Remember - every single one of these missiles was meant to kill Israeli civilians," the message stated.
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