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Source: http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=877a8d56-eda5-4b86-96c6-9e1ab9a07880
The Al-Dura Affair
[National Post] David Frum - A 55-second film clip that purports to show the shooting death of a 12-year-old boy at a Gaza crossroads was broadcast on France's TV 2 on Sept. 30, 2000. Yet evidence has been gathering for years that the shooting of Mohammad al-Dura was entirely staged. The 55-seconds are not a continuous sequence, but are made up of six distinct pieces spliced together. There is no shot of the boy actually being hit, nor is there any sign of blood. Nor does the father make any move toward his son. The crowd in the background cries out that the boy is dead before he falls over. Video of the incident taken by other photographers shows passersby walking unconcernedly between the crouching al-Duras and the Israeli post from which the bullets were supposedly fired.