Editor of the French news magazine, L’Expresse, who viewed the raw footage at the offices of France 2.
Independent filmmaker, producer and director, and former France 2 journalist, who viewed the raw footage of the incident at the offices of France 2.
Head of the French media watchdog agency called Media Ratings who examined raw footage of the clip broadcast on France 2 and claims it is a hoax.
French Member of Parliament representing Bouches-du-Rhône who called on France’s Minister of Communications to investigate France 2’s evidence for claiming Israeli soldiers shot and killed Mohammed Al Durah.
French citizen and France 2 viewer who has filed requests with a mediator, the CSA, and the state council – the country’s highest court – to urge France 2 to publicly acknowledge that there is no proof that the gunshots came from Israeli soldiers.
Writer and author who lives in Paris. Her key article on Al Dura “Myth, Fact and the al-Dura Affair” appeared in the September 2005 edition of Commentary.
Recently she gave an extensive interview on Al Durah to Jerry Gordon:
The Al-Dura Affair Blood Libel: an interview with Nidra Poller from ...
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Surgeon who did reconstructive surgery on Jamal Al Dura’s right arm and recognizes the scars Jamal displays (as proof that he was the victim of Israeli gunfire) as scars resulting from the surgery he performed on Jamal in 1994.
One of three stations comprising France Television, French public television.
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Philippe Assouline: From al Durah to Badawi: Lethal journalism and Palestinian Propaganda’s Manufacturing of Consent
This is a cross-post from The Huffington Post.
It was a defining image of the last conflagration in Gaza. Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh and Egyptian prime minister Hashim Kandil held up a Palestinian child’s corpse to the cameras, his face bloodied, his lifeless eyes a compelling entreaty to the world: “Will you not stand against Israel for killing this child!?”
But ...
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Israeli Reactions to the Al-Durah Affair: a Chronology of Events
September 30, 2000:
Netzarim – near to Magen 3, an Israeli military outpost in The Gaza Strip, Jamal Al-Durah and his son, Mohammed, seek cover from gunfire and are shot, allegedly by Israelis; the son is killed and the father receives several gun wounds before he is evacuated to a hospital.
October 1, 2000
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Southern Command general Yom Tov Samia first denies fault in the boy’s death, ...
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