Israeli police arrest Palestinians who were mistranslated as "mother attack" on Facebook "morning" comments

A queen smelly "incident" is occurring near the West Bank area of ​​Israel's Jordan River called "The Middle East Powder House". A Palestinian official concerned irrelevant to the terrorist attack and the like murmured "morning" and morning greetings with Facebook together with the photographs of which the bulldozer appeared, but Facebook's translation system did that comment " By translating it into Hebrew as "Chieme", the riot occurred that Israeli police arrested men.

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This entry that the Palestinian man posted to Facebook was the beginning of the uproar. A man who is a construction person is murmuring content "Good Morning" in Arabic, with photographs handled bulldozer at the construction site of the West Bank district.


However, Facebook's proprietary translation system automatically translates this comment into a Hebrew word meaning "Attack Them" (to attack them) and "Hurt Them" (to hurt them) translation. And the staff of Israeli police authorities monitoring the behavior of Palestinian extremists found this Facebook translation, which means the police have been arrested by the police.

According to a man who knows Arabic, the Arabic character used on Facebook has a part different from the real character, and there is a high possibility of misreading the word "hurt". If it is an Arabic speaker, the difference is obvious, but it seems that it seems difficult for other language speakers to judge the difference, and the staff of the police authorities actually seems to be a person who can not speak Arabic.


It seems that it was confusing to have a picture of a bulldozer in both the comment displayed as 'do itcha' in Hebrew. For Israel who is nervous about terrorist acts, it is worth judging that this combination of letters and photos is "immediately arrested" because bulldozers have been used so much for the terrorist acts of Palestinian extremists You can say that.

Fortunately, the arrested man has been released successfully in a few hours after the interrogation. A man caught in a truly arrested play is Israel'sHareretRejected comment on paper interview. And then he said he had deleted Facebook posts. It's just a matter of being sorry, but Facebook is saying that we apologize for the mistranslation.