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The Palestinians – not Israeli soldiers –shot and killed 12-year-old Mohammed a-Dura
The tragic death of 12-year-old Mohammed a-Dura
during an exchange of fire between Israeli
Defense Force soldiers and armed Palestinians at
a road junction in the Gaza Strip during the
early weeks of this war, has served ever since to
fuel the Palestinian propaganda machine. The
Palestinians claim IDF soldiers shot and killed
Mohammed in cold blood.
An IDF investigation conducted immediately after
the incident determined that Israeli soldiers –
because of their location – could not have shot
the boy. However, the Palestinian propaganda
machine completely rejected these findings, claiming
they were tendentious and unreliable.
The Israeli position, however, was bolstered
recently by a very thorough investigation carried
out by ARD, Germany’s public television station,
and broadcast on March 19, 2002.
This investigation was based on a study of the
topographical conditions at the junction and an
analysis of the angle at which the bullets entered
the boy’s body. The investigation found that the
shooting came from above – which according to
the lay of the land, could only have come from
the Palestinian side. From where the IDF soldiers
were posted, They could not have seen, let alone
shoot, at Mohammed.
The program’s conclusions were that Mohammed a-Dura
was shot and killed by Palestinian snipers,
not by Israeli soldiers.
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