Your Right to Know: AP Erases Video of Israeli Soldier Shooting Palestinian Boy

April 10, 2006

Footage of this boy being intentionally shot by an Israeli soldier was erased by the Associated Press. Photo: Reuters

We discovered that an AP cameraman had filmed the entire incident. This cameraman had then followed what apparently is the usual routine. He sent his video – an extremely valuable commodity, since it contained documentary evidence of a war crime – to the AP control bureau for the region. This bureau is in Israel. [Read more]

  • Watch a 6 minutes video of Ahmad Mohammad Karan and witnesses of the crime

  • Response to AP statement about erasing the video