File:Muhammad al-Durrah pathologist's image.JPG

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Description: A pathologist's photograph of

Source: Esther Schapira's Das Kind, Der Tod und die Wahrheit for ARD Television, Germany. See here, part 4, at 2:28 minutes.

Copyright: Dr Abed El-Razeq El Masry, the pathologist, or the Al-Shifa Hospital

Rationale for use in

Muhammad al-Durrah incident

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws, and the stricter requirements of Wikipedia's non-free content policies, because:

1. It is an historically significant image.
2. The image has no monetary value that our use of it would affect.
3. It was offered to the media by copyright holder.
4. It has been widely broadcast in France and in Germany.
5. It is being used for informational purposes in an article about the event it depicts.
6. The imagery and its historical significance are a key part of the story and the article would be significantly poorer without it.
7. There is no free equivalent.
8. The image itself has been the subject of commentary. significance of this image is that the article is about whether this boy died, and here is what appears to be an image of him on the day in the morgue, according to the pathologist who released the image. Those who say he was not shot say this image is not of him.