[JTA] In a statement Wednesday, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations asked visiting French President Nicolas Sarkozy to pressure France 2 TV to make available its raw video footage of the shooting of Mohammad al-Dura in Gaza in September 2000. Al-Dura's shooting death became an icon for Palestinian suffering, but the Israeli army concluded after an investigation that the boy could not possibly have been hit by Israeli bullets.
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