Summary
The 12-year-old killed in Gaza on 30 September 2000, shot as he huddled behind his father, whose widely seen images the Report of the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee records as reinforcing the Palestinian perception that Israel responded to the disturbances with excessive and illegal deadly force and contempt for Palestinian lives (lines 160-162).
Details
- The report presents the killing in its What Happened? section as the Palestinian counterpart to the GOI’s emblematic case, the lynching of two Israeli military reservists in Ramallah on 12 October 2000 (lines 160-162).
- The report gives the name in the form “Muhammad al Durra”, without a hyphen (line 160).
Related pages
Report of the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee, Second Intifada, Gaza