The woman in the photo is Rawya abu Jom�a, who was injured in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City in 2014. The photo of a then 17-year-old Rawya was taken in 2014 by award-winning photojournalist Heidi Levine.
Source/Credit: CNN-News18
By CNN-News18 | September 24, 2017
Pakistan on Sunday brandished the photo of a woman with facial injuries at the United Nations General Assembly on Sunday. The country�s Permanent Representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi claimed the woman was a �victim of pellet gun injury in Kashmir�.
The claim, it turns out, was a blatant lie.
While holding up the photo from her chair at the General Assembly, Maleeha Lodhi said, �This, Mr President, is the face of India�s democracy."
Lodhi�s gaffe came as she was replying to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj speech to the world body, where the latter asked Pakistan to introspect why it was lagging in growth.
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