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| By: Israel Insider staff |
| Published: September 17, 2007 |
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The IDF is taking steps to reopen a seven-year-old case that has been used to defame the IDF and the State of Israel, according to the Jerusalem Post.
The deputy commander of the IDF's Spokesman's Office, Colonel Shlomi Am-Shalom, submitted a letter a week ago to the France 2 television network's permanent correspondent in Israel, Charles Enderlin, regarding Enderlin's story from September 30, 2000, in which he broadcast 55 seconds of edited footage from the Netzarim junction in the central Gaza Strip purporting to show IDF forces shooting and killing 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura.
Am-Shalom wrote: "The general has made clear that from an analysis of all the data from the scene, including the location of the IDF position, the trajectory of the bullets, the location of the father [Jamal al-Dura] and the son behind an obstacle, the cadence of the bullet fire, the angle at which the bullets penetrated the wall behind the father and his son, and the hours of the events, we can rule out with the greatest certainty the possibility that the gunfire that apparently harmed the boy and his father was fired by IDF soldiers, who were at the time located only inside their fixed position [at the junction]."
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