12 year old Mohammed Al-Durah was murdered by Israel soldiers,
not
"caught in the crossfire." Please do not allow any instance
of this
whitewashing of his killing to go uncorrected.
The following excerpts from a statement given under oath by Mr.
Talal
Abu Rahma, the photographer for France 2 television who filmed
the
murder, made at the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights on October
3,
2000, is a detailed eye witness account of the killing.
It provides, as
if any were needed, definitive evidence that young Mohammed was murdered
in cold blood, not "caught in the crossfire," as American news
organizations continue to misreport:
"Then, it was quite clear for me that shooting was towards the
child
Mohammed and his father from the opposite direction to them.
Intensive
and intermittent shooting was directed at the two and the two
outposts
of the Palestinian National Security Forces. The Palestinian
outposts
were not a source of shooting, as shooting from inside these
outposts
had stopped after the first five minutes, and the child and his
father were not injured then.
Injuring and killing took place during the following 45 minutes.
I can
assert that shooting at the child Mohammed and his father Jamal
came
from the above - mentioned Israeli military outpost, as it was
the only
place from which shooting at the child and his father was possible.
So,
by logic and nature, my long experience in covering hot incidents
and
violent clashes, and my ability to distinguish sounds of shooting,
I can
confirm that the child was intentionally and in cold blood shot
dead and
his father injured by the Israeli army."