Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Al Jazeera's alternative history of the second intifada

Elder of Ziyon
03 October '10


Al Jazeera in English has a history on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the second intifada.

It is
 filled with lies.

For the year 2000:

In Gaza, a French broadcast crew captured footage of a boy called Mohammed al-Durrah being shot repeatedly by Israeli forces as he clung to his father. Moments later, a paramedic from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society was killed as he attempted to treat the boy and his father.
Not only was the al-Dura story exposed as a hoax, and the the paramedic story seems to have been completely made up - no such person was seen on any of the footage. (B'Tselem claims an ambulance driver was killed en route to the al-Duras, but not while attempting to treat them.)


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