By NNN-KUNA,
Paris : An international press freedom organisation has condemned here the killing of a Palestinian cameraman in Gaza, considering the Strip one of the dangerous places for journalists.
Fadel Shanaa, a cameraman working for Reuters, was killed Wednesday by a rocket fired during an Israeli military incursion into the Gaza Strip, while his assistant, Wafa Barbakh, was seriously injured.
Reporters Without Borders said: “His death serves as a reminder that the Gaza Strip, the theatre of violent clashes between the Israel defence forces and Palestinian armed groups, is still one of the world’s most dangerous places for journalists.”
The organisation called on the Israeli authorities to investigate “quickly” the circumstances that led to Shanaa’s death.
Shanaa, 25, was the first journalist to be killed by the Israeli military since British independent filmmaker James Miller’s death in May 2003.
Shanaa and Barbakh, who were filming an incursion by Israeli tanks near the Al-Barij refugee camp, were using a vehicle that was clearly marked with the word “Press” so that they would be identifiable as journalists but it was hit by an Israeli missile.