Israel: Palestinians Staged Death of Mohammed al-Dura in 2000-Barak Ravid
The September 2000 death of Palestinian child Mohammed al-Dura in Gaza was staged by a Gaza cameraman, Government Press Office Director Daniel Seaman said.
France 2 television had broadcast the original footage of al-Dura's death on September 30, 2000. "Israel was accused of murdering a small child after the event by the world press and his image has been [used] as a symbol of the brutality of the Zionist state," Seaman wrote in an official letter.
Yet "the events of that day were staged by the network's [Palestinian] cameraman in Gaza."
(Ha'aretz)
Palestinian Propaganda Coup -Natan Sharansky
The al-Dura incident is part of the insidious trend in which Western media outlets allow themselves to be manipulated by dishonest and politically motivated sources...recall the Jenin "massacre" that never was, or the doctored Reuters photos from Israel's war against Hizbullah in 2006.
Tragically, there is no way to repair the damage inflicted on Israel's international image by the France 2 report, much less restore the Israeli and Jewish victims whose lives were exacted as vengeance. It is possible, however, to deter slanderous news reporting - and the violence that often accompanies it - by setting a precedent for media accountability...
(Wall Street Journal)
How French TV Fudged the Death of Mohammed Al-Durah -Richard Landes
The raw footage features a long succession of obviously faked injuries. One fellow grabbed his leg in agony, then, upon seeing that no one would come to carry him away, walked away without a limp. It was stunning.
(New Republic)
UPDATE:
French Court Screens Al-Durah Video Footage -Melanie Phillips
I attended the Court of Appeal special session in Paris called to witness hitherto unseen footage of the "killing" of Mohammed al-Durah which the court had required France 2 to produce.
It is clear to anyone looking at this in detail that the whole thing was staged, not least from the devastating evidence which shows the boy raising his arm and peeping through his fingers seconds after France 2 correspondent Charles Enderlin said he had been shot dead. From this footage, there is no evidence that anyone at all was killed or injured - including Mohammed al-Durah, who seemed to be still very much alive and unmarked by any wound whatsoever.
(Spectator-UK)
1 comment:
Whatever the real story is behind here, it does seem clear that a lot of the press has been biased against Israel for some time.
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