Meet the Players
Involved in the Al Durah Incident
Talal Abu Rahma
Charles Enderlin
Olivier Mazerolle
Arlette Chabot
Christine Delavennat
Metula News Agency (MENA)
Stephane Juffa
Talal Abu Rahma
TALAL ABU RAHMA Palestinian cameraman who works for CNN and for France 2. Talal Abu Rahma filmed the al-Dura incident, the one shot that started the second intifada. Abu Rahma received many honorary awards from org...
Charles Enderlin
France 2's Jerusalem-based Middle East bureau chief since 1990 who broadcast as fact the claim that Al Dura was shot by Israeli soldiers. [button...
Olivier Mazerolle
News director of France 2 at the time of the Al Dura broadcast. Found guilty by the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) – an administrative authority over audiovisual media whose councillors are appointed by...
Arlette Chabot
Took over as news director of France 2 after Mazerolle's resignation. Under pressure, she screened the original raw footage for independent journalists Luc Rosenzweig, Denis Jeambar, and Daniel Leconte. While she ac...
Christine Delavennat
Communications director of France 2 who insists Abu Rahma’s sworn affadavit to the Palestinian Human Rights Centre claiming Israeli soldiers deliberately targeted Al Dura was falsely attributed to him. ...
Metula News Agency (MENA)
French language Israeli news agency whose stated mission includes revealing and providing a counterbalance to missing and distorted information that may be disseminated by other news organizations. MENA has been at...
Stephane Juffa
Editor-in-Chief of MENA whose investigation of the reported events concluded that the France 2 broadcast was fabricated in order to vilify the Israel Defense Forces. ...
Gerard Huber
Psychoanalyst and Paris correspondent of MENA who collaborated with Juffa in the investigation of the affair. He wrote a book entitled "Contre-expertise d’une mise en scene" (Re-evaluation of a Staged Event) publi...
Nahum Shahaf
Israeli physicist and a reservist with the optical intelligence unit of the IDF who originally investigated the claims that Al Dura was killed by IDF soldiers. He concluded that the physical evidence indicates the f...
Esther Schapira
German filmmaker who produced an investigative documentary, Drei Kugeln und ein totes Kind (Three Bullets and a Dead Child) suggesting that Mohammed Al Dura was more likely to have been shot by Palestinian gunmen t...
James Fallows
Correspondent for the American periodical, Atlantic Monthly, who wrote an investigative article for the magazine in June 2003 that summarized evidence indicating Al Durah could not have been shot dead by Israeli sol...
Richard Landes
History professor at Boston University and director/co-founder of the Center for Millennial Studies, who became involved in 2003 when he was introduced to MENA's Gerard Huber. Landes subsequently met with Shahaf and...
Luc Rosenzweig
A former journalist for the French daily Le Monde and freelance contributor to MENA who viewed the raw footage of the incident at the offices of France 2. ...
Denis Jeambar
Editor of the French news magazine, L’Expresse, who viewed the raw footage at the offices of France 2. [button url="https://www.aldurah.com/th...
Daniel Leconte
Independent filmmaker, producer and director, and former France 2 journalist, who viewed the raw footage of the incident at the offices of France 2. [butt...
Philippe Karsenty
Head of the French media watchdog agency called Media Ratings who examined raw footage of the clip broadcast on France 2 and claims it is a hoax. [button...
Roland Blum
French Member of Parliament representing Bouches-du-Rhône who called on France’s Minister of Communications to investigate France 2's evidence for claiming Israeli soldiers shot and killed Mohammed Al Durah. &...
Serge Farnel
French citizen and France 2 viewer who has filed requests with a mediator, the CSA, and the state council - the country's highest court - to urge France 2 to publicly acknowledge that there is no proof that the guns...
Nidra Poller
Writer and author who lives in Paris. Her key article on Al Dura "Myth, Fact and the al-Dura Affair" appeared in the September 2005 edition of Commentary. Recently she gave an extensive interview on Al Durah to J...
Dr. David Yehuda
Surgeon who did reconstructive surgery on Jamal Al Dura's right arm and recognizes the scars Jamal displays (as proof that he was the victim of Israeli gunfire) as scars resulting from the surgery he performed on Ja...
France2
One of three stations comprising France Television, French public television....