youtube.com — Footage of Fadel Shana, 23, being killed by a tank shell in the Gaza Strip has been released by the news agency, which said that the cameraman was hit despite clear markings that showed him to be a journalist.Footage released by Reuters shows Mr Shana filming a tank positioned a few hundred yards away in the distance, over the Israeli border.
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explodes causing the picture to go blank as the camera is thrown from Mr Shana's hand.It then cuts away to a film made by another cameraman positioned nearby, which shows the devastation left by the shell, including two youths who had been passing the scene lying dead in the road.Mr Shana, who was from Gaza and had covered the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians for the last three years, died instantly. He had been covering events in Gaza for Reuters on a day of intense violence when 16 other Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers were also killed. More From Wikipedia: <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fadel_Shana">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fadel_Shana</a>More From Reuters: <a class="user" href="http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-editors/2008/04/16/reuters-cameraman-killed-in-gaza/">http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-editors/2008/04/1 ...</a>More From Times: <a class="user" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3764160.ece">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle ...</a>More From FaceBook: <a class="user" href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14735414851">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14735414851</a>
gizm770oJan 11, 2009
In the future let's try using words that actually exist. "Israelian" is not a word. The proper term for somebody from Israel is an Israeli.
shaghouriJan 11, 2009
And don't tell me that the shell was fired from a Hamas tank or a Hamas F16. The video shows the brutal cause-and-effect: tank firing a shell towards the reporter, and a second later the reporter is dead...