Al-dura update

A long time since I blogged about the Al-dura story, here is a link to my previous articles. So I was pleased to read today that:

'A French court has upheld a suit by journalist Phillipe Karsenty, ruling that a French documentary about him and the death of 12-year-old Muhammed Al-Dura in 2000 was defamatory and prejudiced.

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Some of the evidence proving that the France 2 version was inaccurate can be summed up as follows:

* The footage contains nothing indicating that Israeli soldiers shot al-Dura, neither in the 55 seconds broadcast around the globe nor in the 27 remaining minutes filmed by the Arab cameraman Abu-Rahma. No soldiers are in view, and in fact they were barricaded inside a building across the intersection.

* In fact, more evidence indicates that it was actually Arab bullets that killed the boy, if he was killed.

* The footage does not even include visual evidence that Al-Dura actually died. Though he collapses, the tape ends abruptly with the boy inert – though subsequent frames that were not broadcast show him moving (see above).

* Footage taken of Arabs in the same location [the Netzarim Junction] shows Arabs engaged in staging events. As Andrea Levin of CAMERA has written, “The French journalists who viewed the France 2 footage saw this as well, including repeated instances of Palestinians faking injuries followed by the immediate arrival of ambulances to carry away the pseudo-wounded.”'

Hopefully the truth will prevail.