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The 12-year-old Muhammad was killed during the incident in September 2000. For Palestinians and many people around the world, the death - coming in the early weeks of the second Palestinian uprising - became a symbol of the brutality of the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Initially, Israeli army officials said that the bullets "apparently" came from Israeli positions. A subsequent military investigation concluded that it was "quite plausible that the boy was hit by Palestinian bullets in the course of an exchange of fire". But seven years on, the footage of the death of Muhammad al-Durrah is once again under the spotlight and the subject of a French court case.
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The French court case has made few ripples among Palestinians. For most, the Muhammad al-Durrah case is closed. "The majority of Palestinians would not believe the court if they said the killing was fake," says Dr Eyad Sarraj, the head of the Gaza Community Health Programme. "They would see it as some sort of conspiracy." "All Palestinians see the Israelis as guilty in this. Even if Muhammad al-Durrah was killed by a Palestinian bullet, if it hadn't been for the Israeli occupation in Gaza he would be still alive today."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7083129.stm
Wow, Machiavelli must be rolling over in his grave. Cant liberate Al Aqsa without shooting a few 12 years olds breaking a few eggs, I guess.