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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (276767)	7/17/2002 11:24:25 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 769667

The Jerusalem Times (Jerusalem) 16 July 2002 Video footage obtained by the BBC showing an incident in the West Bank city of Jenin two weeks ago in which two Palestinian children were killed by Israeli tank fire, appears to implicate the Israeli army. The Israeli army has apologized for causing the deaths of six-year-old Ahmad Abu Aziz and his 13-year-old brother Jamil, but said the tank crew opened fire to deter Palestinians breaking a curfew. The footage shows a tank firing the first of two tank shells at close range at a group of civilians who are running away. The dead boys' father, Youssef, said that they had gone outside to buy chocolate when the Israeli curfew imposed on their city had been lifted. The film of their last moments begins with the two boys and a number of other civilians walking in the direction towards the camera which was stationed by the BBC crew on the roof of a building. The film shows the sequence of events. A white car speeds along the road, horn blaring, the driver, Dr Samer al-Ahmad, apparently warning the people to run for their lives. Now recovering from his wounds Dr al-Ahmad told the BBC that moments earlier an Israeli officer had said to him that it was permitted for him to be on the streets. But then he said the tank crew opened fire on him with a machine-gun without warning and, "I was hit but I drove on." Soon afterwards in the film the Israeli tank appears at the end of the street. It stops for a few seconds before firing in the direction of the civilians in the market, the blast engulfing them in a ball of flame and smoke. Youssef says he thought the speakers announced that the curfew had been lifted for 4 hours, "I believed there was no danger," he said. "Ahmad asked me for money to buy a chocolate bar. I loved him and his brother so much, they are all gone. Ahmad was buried with the chocolate in his hand." The Israeli troops entered Jenin in late June and imposed a 20 hour a day curfew as part of a massive security operation.