CNN: Gaza (death) video genuine, journalists say

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From CNN:

(CNN) -- There's no truth to accusations by bloggers that a Palestinian camera crew staged a video showing the death of the videographer's brother after an Israeli rocket attack, said the team's employer. "It's absolute nonsense," Paul Martin, co-owner of World News and Features, said of accusations leveled by bloggers at videographer Ashraf Mashharawi.

"He's a man of enormous integrity and would never get involved with any sort of manipulation of images, let alone when the person dying is his own brother," Martin said. "I know the whole family. I know them very well. ... is upset and angry that anyone would think of him having done anything like this. ... This is ridiculous. He's independent."

Raafat Hamdouna, administrative director at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, said Friday that "Mahmoud Khalil Mashharawi, a 12-year-old, was brought to the hospital, and he was breathing, but he was hit in the head and all over his body by shrapnel. He died later in the hospital. He was treated by the Norwegian team. When he was brought in, he was breathing. The team did their best to save him. I am not really sure if they even tried to rush him to the surgery room, because he was badly hurt."

Mashharawi's video footage originally appeared on British television's Channel 4 and later on CNN. It showed futile attempts by doctors to resuscitate Mashharawi's 12-year-old brother, Mahmoud, after he and his 14-year-old cousin, Ahmed, had been wounded in what the family said was a rocket attack from a remote-controlled drone Sunday.

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  I haven't heard of this video but I find it interesting that some find it necessary to forcefully assert that the deaths in Palestine, especially this one, are a fabrication, a lie.

  Now THAT is holocaust denial.

PB

[aquart]

1. No, the deaths are absolutely real.

What they advocate for Israel is happening to them and they don't like it.

It's really lousy when someone denies your right to exist. And backs it with weapons.

The hypocrisy here has such a stench.

[ShortnFiery]

3. Your statements do NOT make sense.

That little boy had nothing to do with denying Israel's right to exist, he was "an INNOCENT." :grr:

[Hanse]

8. He's saying they deserve it because they're Palestinians.

And Palestinians are bad because they want to kill Israelis. Therefore, they should die.

[Contrary1]

9. Substitute the words Americans and Muslims in any order you choose...

Sounds all too familiar.

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10. Indeed. It's at first apalling and then terribly, terribly, sad.

PB

[patrice]

7. If your argument is true, it is also circular, ergo Israel is in the same position as you ascribe to

Palestine; it should receive the treatment it gives to Palestine.

If the principle that is the basis of your argument, i.e. "People should receive the treatment that they deal to others", is true at all; it applies to both sides. If it doesn't apply to BOTH sides then it is not true and if it is not true, what is the basis for the actions of Israel?

It is simply impossible to claim a "right" that you do not yeild to others.

[liberalmuse]

2. I guess I'm a bad person, but...

I don't get this Israel fetish so many people engage in. Even some of my liberal friends are gung ho to kill those Hamas 'terrorists'. I'm sick to death of Israel. This nation has been nothing but a fucking curse since it's inception..

On edit: and NO, I don't hate Jews. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. It's the zionist, arrogant, militaristic factions I find repulsive. I believe many people, including Jews would agree.

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4. You're not a bad person, but I think you're ignorant of what Israel started as...

...and what it has become, and uncontroversial political, social and religious explanations why.

PB

[McCamy Taylor]

5. The curse is on Europe and Germany. Israel and Palestine are both victims.

I think maybe Israel does not always understand the way that it has been harmed, because its suffering is spiritual and psychological.

[okiru109]

6. i'm sure the quality sucked though I hear you can get some great shots from the IDF on you tube

much better resolution!