The family of the baby suicide bomber has confirmed that the photo is genuine. “It was a joke. A JOKE. What are all you Westerners so upset about?”

A Palestinian journalist in the Hebron area said she did not believe the picture was a fake and expressed surprise at the furor it caused in Israel.

“I can find you many, many photos like this,” she told DPA. “Many kids imitate adults and wear toy masks and guns, especially during marches. It’s not strange at all.

She added that she had seen children as young as the one in the photograph wearing similar costumes.

“In our society it happens a lot. It’s a kind of phenomenon,” she said, adding blue eyes were also not rare in Hebron.

See? No big deal. Not strange at all.