TV captures young boy's death

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VIOLENCE IN ISRAEL TV captures young boy's death THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Amid a welter of brutal scenes from street battles that have swept raeli troops. Confrontations that be- gin with stones and rubber-coated BUREU REFUGEE CAMP.

Gaza the West Bank and Gaza Strip since steel pellets often escalate into furi- Strip — Caught in a hail of bullets, Thursday, the boy's death was a sin- ous exchanges of live fire. he died in his father's arms- and in gularly horrific one. Israel's police minister, Shlomo the viewfinder of a TV camera.

TV footage shot by French televi- Ben Ami, blamed Palestinians for The scene was viewed all over the sion during Saturday's pitched bat- putting children in harm's way. world.

Twelve-year-old Mohammed tie outside the heavily guarded Gaza al-Durrah — shot as his desperate "When the Palestinians deliber- settlement of Netzarim showed Mo- ately bring a lot of civilians, some of father tried to shield him after they blundered into the middle of a fierce hammed clinging to his father, Ja- them young people, to demonstrate mal, and screaming in terror as a Israeli-Palestinian clash outside a - and not to demonstrate silently. sustained burst of gunfire raked a small Jewish settlement - was but to throw stones and not only concrete wall behind them. stones but firebombs and use live mourned Sunday in the teeming ref- ugee camp where he spent his short As the two huddled behind a tiny life. abutment. the father vainly It was not entirely clear who fired stretched a protective arm in front of his son. the fatal shots, though Palestinians blamed the Israelis.

Most stations that aired the foot- AP PHOTO In this TV image, Jamal Aldura shouts toward the camera as he protects his son, Rami, on Saturday. fire as well - in such situations, the only thing you can do in order to pro- tect your life is to retaliate, said Ben Ami, who is also the acting foreign minister. *I was always afraid something "We tried to use direct weapons age cut away before the stricken boy like this would happen to him," said could be seen slumping over, loos- only when it was really needed, in order to protect life.

Mohammed's 30-year-old mother, ing his grip on the father, who him- Amal, sitting at the family's home. self twitched convulsively as he was which was filled with friends and rel- struck by round after round. atives who spilled over into the mourning tent outside.

"To those On Sunday, Jamal al-Durrah, a 37-year-old laborer, remained in a Gaza hospital recovering from bul- In this latest spasm of violence - just as in the days of the Palestinian uprising. or intefadeh — Palestinian children are often found on the front lines of deadly cat-and-mouse clash- es between demonstrators and Is The slain boy's relatives freely ac- knowledged that he often joined oth- er children from the camp in throw- ing rocks at israeli soldiers.

Hisnick- Win did it, I say: I wish you may name was Mitwali - a slang word for little troublemaker. let wounds.

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"TV captures young boy's death," Sarasota Herald Tribune, 2 October 2000. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2000-018. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2000-018

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