ET commemorates Palestinian child martyr Mohammad Al-Durra on his 21stdeath anniversary

CAIRO – 30 September 2021: Twenty-one years ago, specifically on September 30, 2000, the treacherous bullets of the Israeli occupation killed the Palestinian child martyr Mohammad Al-Durra.

This unfortunate event coincided with the Al-Aqsa Intifada, which witnessed protests that spread to large areas of the Palestinian territories, including Al-Quds Al-Sharif [Jerusalem].

The lens of the French photographer, Charles Enderlin, correspondent for France 2 channel, captured the scene of Gamal Al-Durra and his 12-year-old son Mohammed, behind a cement barrel, after they were caught in the middle of fire exchange between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian security forces.

Al-Durra’s death caused anger in the Arab world, where tears flowed for him. This made many Arab poets immortalize Al-Durra in their poems.

Among those poets were Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, Iraqi poet Muzaffar al-Nawab, Egyptian poet Abdel Aziz Gweida and Palestinian poet Abdel Wahab Zahida.