Jerusalem, November 24: The Israeli foreign ministry called one of the recent Dutch media reports that accuse their country’s 11th Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, of murdering Palestinian children in Lebanon as the “modern blood libel,” the Israel-based Haaretz newspaper reported.
Volkskrant, the third largest paper in the Netherland, had reported the witness account of a famous Dutch-Jewish director, George Sluizer.
While filming a documentary, Sluizer who is now 78, said he witnessed Sharon killing two Palestinian toddlers with a pistol in 1982 near the refugee camp of Sabra-Shatilla.
“I met Sharon and saw him kill two children before my eyes,” he said.
Sluizer thought this happened in November, when Sharon was Israel’s minister of defense.
Prior to his ministerial post, Sharon was also commander in the Israel Army since the Jewish state inception in 1948.
In another interview for him with an intellectual magazine, Vrij Nederland, published on November 13, and prior to screening one of his movies at the prestigious International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, he reiterated his account, and said that “Sharon shot two children like you shoot rabbits, in front of my eyes.”
Sluizer told the Haaretz, that his cameraman Fred van Kuyk, who died a few years ago, also witnessed the shooting.
In 1983, Sluizer filed two complaints against Sharon, one with the International Court of Justice in the Hague and the other with the European Court of Human Right in Strasbourg.
-Agencies