Muhammad al-Durrah and his father Jamal before the shooting on September 30, 2000. The scene, now iconic, was recorded by Talal Abu Rahma for France 2.
Posted on 11/09/2007 6:54:42 AM PST by DogByte6RER
Dispute rages over al-Durrah footage
By Martin Patience
BBC News, Jerusalem
They were images broadcast all over the world. The TV footage of a young Palestinian boy, Muhammad al-Durrah, and his father cowering in front of a wall as Israeli forces and Palestinians exchanged gunfire at a crossroads in Gaza.
The 12-year-old Muhammad was killed during the incident in September 2000.
For Palestinians and many people around the world, the death - coming in the early weeks of the second Palestinian uprising - became a symbol of the brutality of the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
Initially, Israeli army officials said that the bullets "apparently" came from Israeli positions.
A subsequent military investigation concluded that it was "quite plausible that the boy was hit by Palestinian bullets in the course of an exchange of fire".
But seven years on, the footage of the death of Muhammad al-Durrah is once again under the spotlight and the subject of a French court case.
Philippe Karsenty, a French financial analyst who has studied the killing, accuses the channel which first aired the footage, France 2, its correspondent Charles Enderlin and the Palestinian cameraman who filmed the incident of being complicit in staging the killing.
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I'm quite surprised that the BBC would even report this...
Muhammad al-Durrah and his father Jamal before the shooting on September 30, 2000. The scene, now iconic, was recorded by Talal Abu Rahma for France 2.
So is the boy alive or not?
The Israelis are evil, Zionazis. We don't have any proof, so we'll make it up.
Green Helmet guy digs up the body of dead baby to parade around for the cameras to prove that the Israelis are literally killing babies. The Fake-But-Accurate media is complicit and goes along.
Abu Ghraib is played up into Americans torture. No one was tortured at Abu Ghraib by Americans, nor at Gitmo, nor elsewhere. Fake, but accurate.
Americans kill civilians, Rosie O'Donnell says America murdered 650,000 Iraqis. Ignore the truck bomb in the center of the room.
The MSM is sinking, but sadly, not sinking fast enough. They are evil.
The boy was hit by multiple gunshots moments after that picutre. He died.
The only question is who shot him.
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