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To: steve kammerer who wrote (3360)	10/29/2003 7:34:31 PM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 22250

German TV station: Mohammed Al-Durra killed by Palestinians By DPA and Ha'aretz Service [IMRA: Israel Radio's correspondent in Germany reported this morning that the broadcast noted two stages in self-censorship in the coverage of the shooting : the Palestinian cameraman, Talal Abu Rachman, who filmed the death of Mohammed A-Dura, only provided a few minutes of his film for broadcast and the service that received it released less than a minute of the footage. In addition, a large rock that blocked the view of A-Dura and his father from the field of vision of IDF forces was replaced by "someone" overnight by a flat rock.] Gaza City/Hamburg - Nearly 18 months after television footage of the killing of 12-year-old Mohammed Al-Durra near the Netzarim junction in the Gaza Strip, a dispute has erupted over who shot him. Al-Durra was killed during an exchange of fire between IDF soldiers and Palestinian gunmen at the junction, and the event has become a potent symbol of the Palestinian uprising. A report broadcast Monday by German ARD television said Al-Durra was shot dead by Palestinian militants during the shootout with the soldiers. ARD said its report by Esther Shapira included photographs and documents proving that contrary to earlier reports the boy had not been shot dead by Israeli soldiers but by Palestinian militants. Virtually all Israeli media had assumed at the time that Mohammed, was shot dead by soldiers during the 30-minute clash. The father of Mohammed Al-Durra, Jamal, who was seriously injured in the shootout, rejected the report: "I am 100 percent certain that the Israelis were to blame," he said. "I have medical reports, X-rays and reports by eyewitnesses confirming that we came under fire from Israeli soldiers." The Palestinian cameraman, Talal Abu Rachman, who filmed the death of Mohammed on September 30, 2000, declined to comment on the ARD report, saying he had to watch the program first. Abu Rachman had said in his initial testimony that no Palestinian gunmen had fired shots at the time when the boy was killed. The former GOC Southern Command, Yom-Tov Samia, who headed an investigation into the shooting of Al-Durra, told Israel Radio on Tuesday that the army had erred in hurrying to apologize for the boy's death. Senior IDF officers who issued the apology, said Samia, "made a very grave mistake." "One day," he added, "it will be proven that the whole story... was one big Palestinian production. And Palestinian propoganda has been riding on this for a long time now."