On Thursday, the news came from Gaza to the world. The Israeli shelling killed Mohamed El-Dora’s brother.
| Gamal El-Dora said farewell on Friday to his son Ahmed El-Dora who was killed the day before by Israeli shelling in Al-Buriej camp |
In case you do not know who Mohamed El-Dora was or you forgot who he was here is a short reminder of yet another war crime committed by the world’s most moral army.
In 2000, the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on a civilian man and his son killing the 12-year-old boy despite the pleas of his father at Salah El-Din Street in middle Gaza during the second intifada.
| The iconic shot that has been etched into Arab memory and shaped a whole generation, my generation |
The whole incident which took place for 26 minutes was caught on camera by the AFP photographer and videographer Talal Abu Rahma.
The video turned Mohamed El-Dora, a father of ten children into an iconic martyr symbol of the second intifada as well as the child martyr of Palestine. The scream of his father, Gamal when he knew that his son was killed “The boy is dead” turned the Arab world upside down.
On Thursday, Gamal El-Dora tragically lost another son, Ahmed, who was killed along with 21 others in an Israeli army shelling that targeted the Bureij Refugee Camp.
