The picture from the World Championships in fencing provoked a storm: "Stabbing in the heart of the Zionist nation" | Israel today

A picture uploaded by the World Fencing Federation (FIE), one of the qualifiers for the Dakar World Championships in Cairo, Egypt, has gone viral in the last day and caused a stir in the host country. 

In the photo, in which the Israeli Yonatan Cohen faces the first knockout stage against the Egyptian Ahmed Al-Sayyid, and eventually lost 15:12, the photographer captured the second in which the Egyptian's stab appears to hit exactly the Israeli's mask, on which the national flag is painted. 

Within hours, the photo was shared thousands of times, along with tens of thousands of likes and thousands of hateful comments against Israel, including sentences such as: "Stabbing in the heart of the Zionist nation", "Victory is sweet, but we must not acknowledge it", "We humiliated the Israeli" The delicacy. 

However, on the other hand there is also the sane voice, those who do not understand what all the fuss is about and try to put everything into proportions.

Muhammad Adel Shawi wrote: "What did you get out of breaking more ties? We have many other problems to concentrate on here at home and we need to concentrate on that. Failure to perform in front of the Zionist athletes can also lead to penalties and only we will lose out." 

It is important to note that the World Union has deleted quite a few comments, but they are not keeping up with their pace and therefore hundreds more comments against Israel still appear in the post. 

Meanwhile, the championship continues, when in this model, Ido Harper has advanced to the last 64 stage, which will take place in two days, and will try to achieve a historic medal.

The team, which recently won the silver medal at the European Championships, and hopes to reach the Paris Olympics, will also compete during the week. 

The Israeli fencing association said: "We are involved in sports and do not involve politics. We wish the Israeli delegation and the Egyptian fencers continued success at the World Championships and invite them to come and train in Israel as well, so that they can see our beautiful country."

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