The story of Ali and Mountaha Shaito on the Karfa Road in Lebanon

The original Arabic article is gone now:
http://www.assafir.com/iso/today/front/771.html

This page has an english translation of the story. To me the whole story looks faked. First, it said that their van with 18 or so people was hit by a missile, and the driver was decapitated.
18 people in a van? Also, there are no burn injuries noted. Mountaha says something improbable in Muslim culture which buries people within 24 hours normally:
My mum remained for nine days in the van
before they could remove her.

The mother had ten operations, including a hip operation and putting a rod put in her arm and skin grafts on the arm from her leg, but in the original picture she is popped up against a steel garage door as though she is comforting her son holding his hand with one arm while his head rests on her other arm that she is using to prop herself up! I haven't had a broken arm or broken hip, but one would assume one would be lying flat, especially if you had both injuries at once!

Anyway, the "after" picture shows the mother and son as though they had never been injured rather than just having survived so many operations in the last month.

related:
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/184589.php

http://lebanonheartblogs.blogspot.com/2006/09/back-updated.html

http://www.peres-fondateurs.com/~freedom/?p=76

More updates here?
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&filter=0&scoring=d&ie=UTF-8&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.assafir.com%2Fiso%2Ftoday%2Ffront%2F771.html&btnG=Search+Blogs

I'm inclined to believe Sandmonkey. Apparently the woman was seriously injured, and needed several operations. Sandmonkey says that where the media can be faulted with was the lack of follow-up. They didn't even bother shooting pictures of the ambulance that took the woman away, never mind of her convalescence.

No one was interested in the banal fact that the woman recovered. The image of her "dying" in her son's arms was the dramatic image they were looking for.

A photo doesn't have to be totally staged to be an example of Pallywood.

Maybe a little OT but something the MSM are not likley to show:
"Relatives of Sinai accident casualties hold demonstration opposite Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv, claim that Egypt authorities failed in treating injured, protest lenient sentence handed to bus driver"
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3303434,00.html

"One of the protesters was a woman whose son was wounded in the accident and who died later because he was not evacuated to the hospital in time. Assad Gaban from the community of Mazra'a lost his brother Najub in the accident. His daughter was seriously injured and is still hospitalized. Gaban called on President Hosni Mubarak to come to Israel and "learn from the Israelis what value for life means."