Slain British filmmaker's 'Death in Gaza' debuts

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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=393357&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

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"British cameraman James Miller planned to make a film about children when he was shot dead in the Gaza Strip. Instead, a documentary on what Palestinians saw as his martyrdom premiered at the Berlin festival on Wednesday.


"Death in Gaza" begins with the killing in May, 2003 of Miller, who the film's makers and witnesses say was shot in the neck by an Israel Defense Forces soldier when he and two others tried to leave a house at night.

It ends with him being hailed as a martyr in the Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah where, as "Jeams Maler", the 34-year-old joins other well-known victims and suicide bombers in posters on the scarred walls.

Apart from recording Miller's death, the documentary is a disturbing yet absorbing account of revenge and the cult of martyrdom and its powerful attraction for the younger generation in the Palestinian territories."

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1. "who the film's makers and witnesses say"

Christ, is cast-iron video evidence (contradicting shameless IDF lying, as usual), not enough for Reuters?

I think it is pretty much a given that the IDF shot Miller, and it wasn't as he "tried to leave a house", he'd already left the house and was holding a white flag shouting "we are British journalists".

Probably kind of important to make these sorts of details clear, just out of respect for the family I think.

The BBC has produced the best documentary on this incidentially.