Two photos, one story? No. These two donkeys did not suffer the same fate.
We received inquiries about a photo collage that is currently causing trouble on Twitter. You can see a donkey that has the Israel flag painted on it in blue and is being led by a child on a rope; there are a few people walking around it. On the other hand, a donkey lying on the ground. The back half of the animal is on fire. Someone walks away from the scene.

Image in plain text:
To all Germans and Europeans as well as anti-Semites who feel so sorry for the “poor” Palestinians. This is how these barbarians protest against Israelis. What did this poor animal do to the beasts, what does the donkey have to do with Israelis. You're at a loss for words for these monsters.
Do these two photos really have anything to do with each other?
The short and painless answer is: no .
The two photos have nothing to do with each other. They weren't even recorded in the same year.
The fact check
Let's focus on the top photo first: the donkey with the flag painted on it.
Several sources date the photo to September 23, 2011. There were a number of protests by Palestinians between 2011 and 2012. There were the first major solidarity rallies with Egyptian demonstrators who were part of the Arab Spring . However, these were largely limited to the Gaza Strip.
According to gettyimages , the photo taken by Jaafar Ashtiyeh shows the following:
Palestinians display a donkey as an Israeli flag during a demonstration in support of the Palestinian candidacy at the United Nations for statehood recognition in the West Bank village of Kfar Kadum September 23, 2011.
(*Translation with the help of DeepL)
The photo and other recordings can also be found in other places, here too reference is made to the year 2011, such as here or here .
It is not clear whether and how the donkey with the flag died.
Now let's turn to the second photo: The donkey lying on the ground and burning.
Gettyimages can also help us here :
Palestinians burn the donkey previously killed by an Israeli airstrike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, August 6, 2014, as Israeli and Palestinian delegations prepared for crisis talks in Cairo to try to extend the 72-hour ceasefire.
The ceasefire, which came into force on August 5, has brought relief to both sides after a month of killing 1,875 Palestinians and 67 people on the Israeli side. (*Translation with the help of DeepL)
The photo was taken by Abed Rahim Khatib/NurPhoto in 2014, long after the first photo. This and the fact that the donkeys were photographed in two different locations suggests that they cannot be the same animal .
Result:
These two photos do not belong to each other.
One was taken in 2011, the other in 2014. There is also no geographical correspondence.
Here someone took two different photos from the internet and assembled them into a collage and added a different story.
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