September 30, 2017, marks the 17th anniversary of the murder of the Palestinian child Mohamed al-Durrah by Israeli soldiers while in his father’s arms, in a scene that sparked international furor.

The Muhammad al-Durrah incident took place in the Gaza Strip on 30 September 2000, on the second day of the Second Intifada, during widespread rioting throughout the Palestinian territories.

Jamal al-Durrah and his 12-year-old son, Muhammad, were filmed by Talal Abu Rahma, a Palestinian cameraman freelancing for France 2, as they were caught in gunfire heavily discharged by the Israeli occupation forces.

The footage shows the pair crouching behind a concrete cylinder, the boy crying and the father waving, then a burst of gunfire and dust, after which the child is seen slumped across his father's legs. The father caught sight of bullets penetrating his son’s back.

After a public funeral broadcast live by national and international TV channels, Muhammad was hailed throughout the world as a victim of Israeli terrorism.

On 28 September 2000, two days before the shooting, the notorious Israeli leader Ariel Sharon and six members of the Israeli Knesset (parliament), escorted by nearly 1,000 soldiers, stormed al-Aqsa Mosque—Muslims’ third holiest.

The violence that followed had its roots in several events, but the break-in was provocative and triggered protests that escalated into rioting across the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The uprising became known as the Second Intifada; it lasted over four years and cost around 4,412 Palestinian lives and left 48,322 others wounded. 1,000 Israeli soldiers and settlers died in the uprising while 5,000 were wounded.

The day Mohammed Al-Durrah, 12, was killed is a day that is eternally engraved in my heart. It is a day that I think about everyday.

On the second day of the Second Intifada, or uprising, Mohamed Al-Durrah was caught in a crossfire between Israeli Occupation Forces and Palestinian resistance fighters.

Trying to hold onto life, Mohamed Al-Durrah held onto his father.  He held on tighter as the seconds passed, his face growing more terrified as the seconds passed, and then the camera shook. When the camera regained focus, he was dead. All of his pain, gone.  All of his suffering, gone.  All of his stress, gone. That was it.

My grandfather took me to the Arabic store with him the next week to buy bread, the store was handing everyone a picture of Mohamed Al-Durrah. This wasn't the first time a Palestinian child has been killed by Israeli Occupation Forces, I used to see pictures of dead Palestinian children on Al Jazeera all the time. This time, however, everyone witnessed exactly what happened. We all witnessed his face going from pain to peace.

I was a little girl who enjoyed television shows like Dora the Explorer and Rugrats at the time Mohamed Al-Durrah was killed. After watching that tape, I stopped playing with toys and watching little kid shows. I matured very fast. Mohamed Al-Durrah is the reason for my choice of studies. His death opened my eyes to injustice, and now I can't close them.

Mohamed Al-Durrah would be 22 years-old if he was alive right now. Maybe he would have been married, maybe not. Maybe he would have become a doctor, maybe an engineer. We will never know. We will never know what the twelve year-old boy would have grown up to be.

Knesset member Ahmad Tibi is calling on Israeli authorities to punish a doctor convicted of slandering the father of Mohammad Ad-Durra by a French court Friday.

In 2000, the television station France 2 reported that Israeli soldiers shot dead Mohammad Ad-Durra, 12, in Gaza City.

The killing was filmed by French reporters and the channel broadcast footage of the incident, in which Ad-Durra's father Jamal was also shot and injured as he tried to take cover with his son.

In an interview to a French Jewish publication in 2008, Israeli doctor Yehuda David claimed Jamal Ad-Durra's injuries stemmed from a previous accident. He had operated on Ad-Durra in 1994.

Ad-Durra sued David and the publication for slander.

A Paris court on Friday convicted the doctor, a reporter and the editor of Jewish News Weekly, of defaming Jamal Ad-Durra. The three were fined 1,000 euros each and ordered to pay 5,000 euros in damages.

MK Ahmad Tibi urged the Israeli Medical Association and the Ministry of Health to prosecute the doctor, noting that misusing and distorting confidential medical files is a criminal offense.

David has previously claimed that the video footage of Mohammad's killing was fabricated, and that the boy was killed by Palestinian fire.

In 2000, the Israeli army conducted an internal investigation and admitted responsibility for the killing but in 2007 the Israeli government officially denied involvement.