The Hoax That Framed Israeli Soldiers as Killers of Children
Twenty years ago, Mohammad al-Dura didn’t die.
October 2, 2020
The Hoax That Framed Israeli Soldiers as Killers of Children
Twenty years ago, Mohammad al-Dura didn’t die.
This week marks the twentieth anniversary of two connected events: the launching of the second intifada by Yasir Arafat on September 2000 and, two days later, the airing of video on French television showing the twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Dura shot dead, supposedly by IDF bullets. But the boy in the film, it turned out, had not been killed that day, and it is unlikely any gun battle took place. Nidra Poller, who played a leading role in uncovering this hoax, recounted the story in a 2005 essay in Commentary. In the course of her investigation, she was able to view other footage from the scene of the nonexistent crime from the same day:
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