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		In footage shot by France 2, 12-year-old Mohammed Al-Dura crouches behind his father as both are caught in the cross-fire between the IDF and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip in September 2000. (AP)

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GPO head: Sept. 2000 death of Gaza child Al-Dura was staged

By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service, and The Associated Press

Government Press Office Director Daniel Seaman said Monday that the September 2000 death of Palestinian child Mohammed Al-Dura in the Gaza Strip was staged.

Seaman made the comments in a letter he sent responding to a demand that he strip France 2 journalists of their GPO credentials. France 2 broadcast the footage of Al-Dura's death in September 2000.

The Prime Minister's Bureau said it was not informed of Seaman's letter, nor did it grant its approval.

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Following a summary of the incident and the events that followed, Seaman wrote, "Here began the long path to exposing the truth ... that is known to us today, that the events of that day were essentially staged by the network's cameraman in Gaza, Mr. Tilal Abu-Rehama."

Seaman nonetheless refused to strip the network of its GPO credentials.

The disturbing images of Mohammed al-Dura's death were shown around the world. In the France-2 report, the boy and his father cower in front of a wall amid a furious exchange of fire between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in Gaza.

The report shows the father gesturing to try to stop the shooting - then cuts to a shot of the motionless boy slumped in his father's lap. The report said the gunfire had come from nearby Israeli positions, though the circumstances remain in dispute.

The IDF initially said the gunfire apparently came from Israeli positions. But a military investigation subsequently determined he could have been hit by Palestinian bullets in an exchange of fire.

Last month, a French court ordered France 2 to release unedited 7-year old footage of Al-Dura's death for renewed investigations into the incident.

The court launched new hearings in the legal dispute between France-2 and a Philippe Karsenty, a self-described media watchdog who has accused the network and its Israel correspondent, Charles Enderlin, of staging the shooting.

Enderlin and the TV network filed a libel suit against Karsenty, and a Paris judge ruled in their favor last year.

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1.	Israeli Lefties like Sarid will never allow the truth to come out	22:57	\|	Absolute Sweden	01/10/07

2.	Seaman is a liar fascist who thinks the entire Palestinian	22:59	\|	observer	01/10/07

3.	No kidding	23:01	\|	Lavy	01/10/07

4.	Staged?????? Are you Crazy or Something?	23:12	\|	BEAST	01/10/07

5.	Sukkot reading is apropos. Ecclesiates...	23:28	\|	common sense	01/10/07

6.	Al Dura Denier!	23:29	\|	WE WILL NEVER FORGET	01/10/07

7.	The death of Palestinian child Mohammed Al-Dura was STAGED	23:31	\|	John Stewart	01/10/07

8.	al-dura	23:31	\|	Shmuelshachor	01/10/07

9.	Staged??? Follows the pattern #1	23:35	\|	b`galil	01/10/07

10.	Wow, some staging	23:35	\|	Paul Freedman	01/10/07

11.	That is what disturbing zionist liars	23:40	\|	Marcel	01/10/07

12.	Pallywood	23:43	\|	SystemF	01/10/07

13.	Beast	23:44	\|	film fan	01/10/07

14.	WHAT EXACTLY IS SO HARD TO BELIEVE?(BE SPECIFIC)	23:45	\|	Begood	01/10/07

15.	No surprise	23:48	\|	Nemesis	01/10/07

16.	Like everything from Fatahland	23:53	\|	Gee	01/10/07

17.	Eternal shame on palestinians and friends who stood by the lie	23:56	\|	Johnny	01/10/07

18.	Pals staged "victims funerals" in Nablus,where the "dead" stood	23:59	\|	Absolute Sweden	01/10/07

19.	Bethlehem nativity siege was also staged	00:02	\|	Jake	02/10/07

20.	1,8 Zionophobia justified by lying and Blood Libels	00:03	\|	Rob	02/10/07

21.	1,8 Zionophobia justified by lying and Blood Libels	00:03	\|	Rob	02/10/07

22.	Marcel you will grow old and bitter	00:04	\|	Johnny	02/10/07

23.	#8--Lies and then there`s pure fantasy	00:08	\|	Paul Freedman	02/10/07

24.	# 9 I know you	00:08	\|	BEAST	02/10/07

25.	The whole of the palestinian argument is staged	00:09	\|	Chick	02/10/07

26.	Marcel, are the facts getting on your nerves?	00:13	\|	Jake	02/10/07

27.	CHILD USED AS PROTECTION	00:16	\|	TOBIA	02/10/07

28.	Israel has been known to shoot cameramen.	00:26	\|	Maureen Ann	02/10/07

29.	STAGED AND I HAVE PROOF!!!	00:28	\|	Joey	02/10/07

30.	Beast	00:29	\|	rich	02/10/07

31.	854 Palestinian children KILLED BY ZIONISTS	00:39	\|	Pat	02/10/07

32.	Sad posters try to uphold the Dura lie	00:45	\|	William	02/10/07

33.	how sick	00:49	\|	alan	02/10/07

34.	TO BEAST , i accept yuour rebutal but you need proof.	00:53	\|	Gabriel	02/10/07

35.	#27 Tobia	00:55	\|	Boycott	02/10/07

36.	#1, 21	01:01	\|	gogo	02/10/07

37.	What else is new under the Sun..	01:08	\|	Abergil	02/10/07

38.	Maureen #28 - and WHY are Pal children killed?	01:12	\|	William	02/10/07

39.	ISRAELI GOVN LIES	01:15	\|	BRIAN	02/10/07

40.	to # 29	01:16	\|	BEAST	02/10/07

41.	Pat, Maureen et al - # of pal children killed	01:26	\|	William	02/10/07

42.	Pat	01:27	\|	rich	02/10/07

43.	Begood # 10 What`s Hard To Believe	01:32	\|	Jeff Northridge	02/10/07

44.	Maureen Ann # 28	01:43	\|	ChanahS	02/10/07

45.	PAT MAYBE RIGHT BUT	01:52	\|	TOBIA	02/10/07

46.	#28 -- Maureen - Shooting cameramen?	02:58	\|	Slibovitiz	02/10/07

47.	Pallywood at its best.Thanks Joey for the link	04:30	\|	infidel	02/10/07

48.	Moron Bum you still do not agree to independent Aboriginistine	20:57	\|	Genuine Tosefta	02/10/07

49.	#38, William...ever seen videos of settler children?	17:38	\|	Silvienne	04/10/07

50.	#46, Slibovitiz...	17:41	\|	Silvienne	04/10/07

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