Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
2 May
UK JURY FINDS ISRAELI MILITARY MURDERED ANOTHER BRITISH CITIZEN
On this day in 2003, an Israeli soldier in Gaza shot dead cameraman James Miller while Miller was holding and waving a white flag. Miller was also a film producer and director, and a recipient of numerous awards, including five Emmy Awards. The Israeli Army claimed that Miller had been “shot in crossfire”. Two years later, the Israelis closed the case, saying that the soldier responsible for the shooting would not be charged. In April 2006, a British inquest jury ruled that Miller had been “murdered”.
2 مايو
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2003 ، َقتَل جندي إسرائيلي المصور جيمس ميلر في غزة بالرصاص بينما كان ميلر يمسك ويلوح بعلم أبيض. كان ميلر أيضًا منتجًا ومخرجًا للأفلام ، وحصل على العديد من الجوائز ، بما في ذلك خمس جوائز إيمي. وزعم الجيش الإسرائيلي أن ميللر قد "أُطلق عليه الرصاص في تبادل لإطلاق النار". بعد ذلك بعامين ، أغلق الإسرائيليون القضية ، قائلين إنه لن يتم توجيه اتهامات للجندي المسؤول عن إطلاق النار. في أبريل 2006 ، قضت هيئة محلفين تحقيق بريطانية بأن ميلر قد "قُتل".
Reporters Without Borders said it was “satisfied” by the conclusions of the British investigation into the death of James Miller which concluded he was deliberately murdered by an Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip three years ago on 2 May 2003. “Now we are waiting for the Israeli authorities to accept their responsibility in the death of the British journalist and take sanctions against whoever was responsible,” said the press freedom organisation. Miller, 34, father of two children, aged two and five months at the time, was shot dead while filming in the Rafah refugee camp for a HBO documentary on the impact of the conflict on Palestinian children and residents of the camp.
The Committee to Protect Journalists today renewed its call for Israel to properly investigate the killing of a British cameraman in the Gaza Strip after a London court found that his shooting by an Israeli officer was murder. James Miller, an award-winning filmmaker, was filming a documentary about Palestinian children caught up in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when he was hit by a single shot in the neck three years ago.
Suspecting that answers might not be forthcoming, the Miller family sent a private investigator to the scene the day after the killing to do forensic tests - tests, the investigator said, that the Israelis never conducted. In the next few days the army bulldozed the site, destroying much of the remaining evidence, the investigator said...
A spokesman for the British Foreign Office claimed before the UK inquest jury verdict:
"We have pressed the Israelis at every level, and at every stage, to agree to a full and transparent investigation. We are disappointed that the investigation wasn't carried out properly and hasn't resulted in an indictment, and that the IDF has decided not to discipline the person alleged to have shot James Miller."
[James Miller] specialized in documentaries about the downtrodden and the oppressed; his past work included "Beneath the Veil" (2001), about the war in Afghanistan, which won Emmy and Peabody awards; "Children of the Secret State" (2000), about famine in North Korea; and "Armenia: The Betrayed" (2002), about the massacres of Armenians in 1915.
Mr. Miller and his colleagues had spent the evening at a Palestinian house, filming Israeli bulldozers knocking down Palestinian buildings...Mr. Miller walked into an exchange of gunfire, they [Israeli authorities said, and was hit in the back by a Palestinian bullet. The next day, the Miller family dispatched Chris Cobb-Smith, a security expert and British Army veteran, to Gaza to investigate...
Britain continues to sell sniper rifle parts to the Israeli military.
Murder of civilians is regular Israeli practice.