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Israel Again Claims "Oops!" Regarding Murdered Journalist

Reuters | 01.05.2008 01:29 | Palestine | World

Does the Israeli military only recruit the blind, and then forget to train their recruits?

This is the only rational explanation for the sheer volume of "mistakes" it claims to have made.

It said this when it targeted and murdered UN personnel after they reported Israeli War Crimes in Lebanon.

They do it any time someone supporting the Palestinians, or threatening to tell the whole story, is murdered.


Army did not know it was firing at TV crew: Israel
Wed Apr 30, 2008

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli troops were unable to identify Reuters News cameraman Fadel Shana as a journalist before they fired at him from a tank, the Israeli army said on Wednesday, citing the preliminary results of an investigation.

(Yeah, I guess that giant "TV" symbol on his flack jacket didn't clue them in. Perhaps because they aren't that cautious about what they fire tank shells at.)

Shana died while filming on a road in central Gaza on April 16. Five other Palestinians (civilians) also died in the attack.

Shana had been traveling in a vehicle that was marked with large press and TV stickers on the front and sides and was wearing blue body amour with "Press" in large blue letters on a white fluorescent panel on the front.

Responding to repeated requests for an official explanation of the incident, Israeli military spokeswoman Major Avital Leibovich said the army had not yet completed its investigation but would provide a full account as soon as possible.

(A UN investigation should have followed such an act. Israel should at least release its surveillance balloon footage from the attack.)

"The initial investigation showed they were not identified as members of the press," she said.

Nineteen Palestinians died that day after militants killed three Israeli soldiers who were on a raid into Gaza.

(After? Or at the same time, or before?)

Doctors said 24-year old Shana was killed by metal darts sprayed from a tank shell. His final moments of footage show the shell being fired by a tank around 1.5 km (1 mile) away.

(Which means that the tank was using Flachette rounds, an antipersonnel weapon which kills indiscriminately, and should NEVER be used in a residential area, as this was. This proves that Israel is targeting civilians willingly.)

His colleague Wafa Abu Mizyed was wounded by a dart.

Reuters News editors met Leibovich and representatives of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office on Wednesday to urge the Israeli military to share the findings of its investigation.

"We owe it to the family of Fadel Shana and journalists working for Reuters and other media organizations to establish exactly what happened two weeks ago," said Mark Thompson, Reuters News managing editor for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

"We urge the Israeli army to conduct its investigation as thoroughly and speedily as possible."

 http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL3068830520080430

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