05/08/03: British journalist James Miller, who was shot dead last week in the Gaza Strip town of Rafah, was hit by IDF fire, not by Palestinian fire, according to an autopsy carried out at by the Forensic Institute, Israel Radio reported Thursday.

A pathologist sent from Britain by Miller’s family participated in the autopsy, the radio said. The dissection showed that the cameraman was shot from the front, and not from behind, as the IDF claimed. He was wearing a helmet and a flack jacket, but was hit in the neck.

A Palestinian toddler was killed Wednesday by IDF fire in a Gaza Strip refugee camp. Two Hamas militants were also killed Wednesday; one in an explosion blast in a West Bank house and the second by IDF gunfire.

Alian Bashiti, aged eighteen months, was in his house in the Khan Yunis refugee camp when he was hit in the neck by an IDF bullet. He died shortly afterwards.

Witnesses in Khan Yunis camp said that IDF soldiers fired at the neighborhood from the nearby settlements of Morag and Ganei Tal.