A father of a Palestinian boy who was killed during the second Palestinian Intifada in 2000, dismissed a report released by the Israeli government alleging that his late son, Mohammed Al-Dura, was not killed by Israeli fire.

The images, filmed by the French public television France 2, showed a 12-year-old boy crying and cowering beside his father at a junction near an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip during the second Intifada amid a gun battle in the area.

The images have no evidence that al-Dura was killed by Israeli fire, the report said.

"I myself was hit with more than one gunshot and fractions from the Israeli fire," al-Dura's father, Jamal, told Xinhua.

As for the Israeli report which said the whole scene was staged, Jamal said "I spent more than two months at a medical center in Jordan to recover."

According to the Israeli report, the France 2 did not broadcast the entire 27-minute footage, which showed at their end that the boy was raising an arm.

He added that Mohammed died at the scene of the film, saying that his son might have raised his arms "while dying."

"If it was not Israeli fire, who then hit us?" Jamal wonders.

The father said he accepts an independent investigation into the incident, but only when Israel declares that it would accept the results.

For its part, Islamic Hamas movement, which governs the Gaza Strip, rejected the idea of any kind of investigation.

"The mere idea of accepting an investigation committee demonstrates doubt over what has happened," said Salah Al- Bardaweel, a Hamas official, told Xinhua.

"The truth is very obvious and clear, we do not accept committees and we even do not trust them," he added.