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Intifada Poster Child Al-Dura Was Alive at End of Video
(Ynet News) Attila Somfalvi - The report of a special Israeli government inquiry committee into the death of the Palestinian boy Muhammad al-Dura during the Second Intifada was presented to Prime Minister Netanyahu on Saturday. The report focuses on a Sept. 2000 France 2 broadcast in which the boy is seen hiding behind his father and concludes that al-Dura was still alive at the end of the video. According to the committee findings, there was no evidence that the boy or his father were even injured at the time the video was shot. Committee chairman Yuval Steinitz said, "This was a blood-libel against Israel. The French report was simply false." In September 2007, a French court instructed the TV channel to hand over the entire, unedited footage shot that day. In the full video, Muhammad al-Dura can be seen waving his hand, moving his leg and without any visible bloodstains, despite claims made during the news report that the boy had died.