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Biographical information on Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu's Wikipedia page was briefly replaced with a large image of a Palestinian flag as the bloody conflict between Israel and Hamas continues to spill over to the Internet.
The flag was on the Netanyahu's page for about an hour on Wednesday (KST) before Wikipedia re-edited the page.
Wikipedia, the world's most widely used online encyclopedia, relies on content written and edited by its users. While nearly anyone can make a change to a Wikipedia page, records of each change are kept and a selected group of editors can quickly re-edit the page or revert it to the earlier version.
More than 600 Palestinians and 30 Israelis have been killed in two weeks of fighting, which worsened after Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to invade Gaza last week.
Diplomatic efforts to end the bloodshed are intensifying. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urged Israel and the Palestinians to "stop fighting" and "start talking." Earlier, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said a previous Egyptian plan should form the basis of a ceasefire.