Days of Palestine, London -Israeli occupation authorities use doctored videos to justify murdering Palestinian civilians, investigation carried out by Canadian firm has said.
A very long investigative story conducted by the Finnish journalist Ariyana Love in cooperation with a Canadian investigation firm found that the CCTV footage of two Palestinian children carrying knives before they were shot by Israeli criminals, one killed and one wounded, was doctored.
The investigative story titled ‘Israeli ministry falsified evidence to whitewash settler crimes and frame child Ahmed Manasrah on false charges’ explained how the video was worked out and how the investigation found there were no knives as the Israeli occupation has claimed.
“CCTV security footage indicating 13-year-old Ahmad Manasrah and 15-year-old Hassan Manasrah running with knives in Occupied East Jerusalem, has been confirmed by experts as doctored and fake, tampered with prior to release by the Israeli government, in an attempt to whitewash Hassan’s extrajudicial execution and the attempted execution of Ahmad by criminal, illegal settlers on October 12, 2015,” Love wrote.
She continued explaining: “A private investigative firm in Canada analysed the one and a half minute security footage frame by frame, in order to determine if it was authentic. It was a process that took over 10 hours.
“In multiple places the footage was doctored and the investigator demonstrates how the two knives that were edited into the hands of Hassan and Ahmad, can be seen disappearing and reappearing repeatedly in what he told me was a ‘blotch job.’”
Love accused the Israeli government, including the Israeli border police and associated agencies along with the office for prosecution, Hadassah Hospital, medics personnel, G4S Security and Israeli media are all “complicit to crimes under miscarriage of justice in framing this child and whitewashing severe and unfathomable crimes against humanity.”
She added: “Consequently the doctored video is being used to justify ‘attempted murder’ charges against Ahmad who was lucky to survive the brutal settler attack that left his skull cracked and nearly killed him.
“Ahmad is being tortured in a G4S detention facility, where he is denied family visits and has endured solitary confinement and forced confessions under torture. Ahmad is now being tried as an adult by the Israeli military court in violation of international and Israeli law.”
Love said that this said that such video was doctored to protect “illegal” Israeli criminals from punishment, as well as to maintain good image of the Israeli occupation.
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