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Al-Durra Comes Back to Life

Al Durra’s image continues to haunt the world

GAZA STRIP, November 30 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Mohammad Al Durra, the little boy who was killed by the Israeli occupation gunfire at the beginning of the Palestinian Intifada, has been resurrected by name.

His mother, Amal gave birth to a little boy on Friday, November 29 to a baby boy whom she named Mohammad Al Durra.

Speaking to Agence France-Presse (AFP), his father Jamal Al Durra said: “My son Mohammad did not die. He’s back again despite the crimes of the Israeli occupation.”

He added that his son came back on the last Friday in the month of Ramadan and on the International Quds Day. “The Intifada will continue,” said Al Durra.

Jamal now has 7 children, five boys and two girls, the eldest is Eyad, aged 16 and the youngest is the new born Mohammad.

Just moments after France 2 Talal Abu Rahma pictured Al-Durrah September 30, 2000, the 12-year-old boy was shot dead by Israeli occupation soldiers, to become a new martyr for the Palestinian cause.

For 45 minutes, Muhammad's father tried in vain to shield him from Israeli gunfire as they crouched against a concrete wall near Netzarim in the Gaza Strip, BBC’s online news service reported after the tragic event.

The whole scene was caught on camera by France 2 cameraman Abu Rahma, and was played repeatedly on world televisions.

The footage shows the boy's father Jamal al-Durrah waving desperately to Israeli forces, shouting: "Don't shoot". But the terrified boy is hit by four bullets, and collapses in his father's arms and finally slumps across his wounded father's lap.

An ambulance driver who tried to rescue the boy and his father was also killed, and a second ambulance driver was wounded.

The Israeli occupation army admitted, after Abu Rahma’s video footage triggered world indignation, that the shots which killed Muhammad had been fired by its troops, and apologized for his murder.

Abu Rahma’s video footage showed that not only were the boy and his father completely unarmed, but that they were not even part of the rioting, BBC said.

The disturbing footage, which shocked the entire world, was played throughout the Middle East, and on all major U.S. television networks.

A photo still from the video ran on the front page of The New York Times.

The British daily newspaper, The Independent, described it as "an image that will haunt the world as painfully and powerfully" as any of those from the Palestinian Intifada.

 

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