PMW : PA TV falsified Mohammed Al Dura clip as it falsified Gaza beach

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Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin - June 13,
2006

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PA TV falsified Mohammed Al Dura clip as it falsified Gaza beach
video

By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

PMW reported yesterday that Palestinian Authority
(PA) TV has been broadcasting a falsified video clip of the
events on the Gaza beach on Friday in an attempt to blame Israel
for the deaths. [Yesterday's bulletin is reprinted below.]

In the new falsification, an unrelated video clip
of an Israeli missile boat was edited into news footage to make
it appear as if the Israeli boat intentionally fired on civilians.
This is the same technique that PA TV used after Muhammad Al-Dura
was killed in a cross fire in the Gaza Strip in 2000. Subsequent
analysis of that incident has shown that Palestinian fire likely
killed the boy. But the PA TV propaganda clip inserted footage
of an Israeli soldier from a completely different incident to
make it look as if a soldier deliberately aimed at and shot
Al-Dura. That doctored video clip was broadcast hundreds of
times on PA TV.

Click here to see
the falsified PA TV broadcast of Al Dura's death.

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Reprinted PMW June 12, 2006 Bulletin:

PA TV falsifies video of Gaza deaths

By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

Palestinian Authority TV has been
repeatedly broadcasting a falsified video clip of the events
surrounding the deaths of seven family members on the Gaza beach on
Friday. In an attempt to blame Israel's navy for the deaths, PA TV
took unrelated video of an Israeli missile boat firing at Gaza
earlier in the day and edited them into the scenes, creating the
impression Israeli responsibility.

The following is the time
frame of the PA TV editing and falsification:

• 
  
  00:00-0:32
  seconds: PATV clip introduces the scene by showing an
  Israeli missile boat firing on the Gaza coast. Audio of ambulance
  siren is added to visual to create false impression that boat was
  shooting at same time as ambulances were present.
  
  
• 
  
  0:32-1:05
  seconds: Scene switches directly to the victims, creating
  a false connection between the events.
  
  
• 
  
  1:05-1:09
  seconds: PA TV returns to the naval vessel showing sailor
  with binoculars looking at shore, again creating the false
  impression he is observing the evacuation.
  
  
• 
  
  1:09-2:00
  seconds: The evacuation scene continues ending with the
  word "Why" on the screen only in English, indicating a foreign
  target audience, possibly media.

The video of the Israeli navy was
unrelated to the deaths, having been filmed earlier in the day and
had already released to the media and to the internet by the Israeli
army at 4:00 PM, an hour prior to the deaths.

Click here to
see the falsified PA TV broadcast
of the
evacuation

Comment: It should be noted that not
only is the video falsified, but the beach scene clearly backs the
Israeli contention that the deaths were not caused by an Israeli
shell. Any Israeli shell would have left a giant crater and spread
sand over the entire area, as well as on the victims. There is no
crater and the beach scene is not disturbed in a way that indicates
an Israeli shell could have landed nearby.

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