[Ha'aretz] Barak Ravid - The September 2000 death of Palestinian child Mohammed al-Dura in Gaza was staged by a Gaza cameraman, Government Press Office Director Daniel Seaman said Monday. France 2 television had broadcast the original footage of al-Dura's death on September 30, 2000, the second day of the Second Intifada. "Israel was accused of murdering a small child after the event by the world press and his image has been burned into the collective Arab memory as a symbol of the brutality of the Zionist state," Seaman wrote in an official letter. Yet "the events of that day were essentially staged by the network's cameraman in Gaza, Talal Abu Rahmeh."
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