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Tank shell that sprays deadly darts killed cameraman in Gaza, say doctorsPrintEmailSearchSearchGoIndependent.co.ukWebBookmark & ShareDigg Itdel.icio.usFacebookStumbleuponWhat are these?By Donald Macintyre in central GazaFriday, 18 April 2008Bordered by lemon trees on one side and an olive grove on the other, the
country lane leading to Joher Al Dik, where Fadel Shana was killed doing his
job, was all but deserted yesterday afternoon. But two teenage boys from the
Nusseirat refugee camp displayed half a dozen of the dull, black, inch-long
darts which they said they had found among the cactus growing along the
verge opposite where Mr Shana had parked his unarmoured SUV to film a tank
on Wednesday afternoon.
According to doctors who examined the body of the 23 -year-old Palestinian
Reuters cameraman at Gaza City's Shifa Hospital, it was controversial darts
like those, flechettes, fired from an Israeli tank shell that explodes in
the air, that caused his death. X-rays displayed to Reuters showed several
of the flechettes embedded in the dead man's chest and legs, and more were
found in his flak jacket, clearly emblazoned, like his vehicle, with "TV"
and "Press" signs.
Mr Shana, unmarried, and a talented and popular member of the award-winning,
15-strong Reuters team in the Gaza Strip, had been driving west along the
normally quiet road when he and his soundman, Wafa Abu Mizyed, 25, decided
to park their vehicle 200 metres or so short of Gaza's main north-south
Salahadin Road. They had been touring Gaza to report on the worst day of
violence since early March.
A charred black patch yesterday marked the spot where the vehicle, its rear
ripped to pieces by the blast, had been towed away.
Mr Shana set up his tripod and faced back east in the direction of the Israeli
border to film a tank perhaps a kilometre and a half away across the fields.
The last video from Mr Shana's camera showed the tank opening fire. Two
seconds later, after the shot raises dust around the tank's gun, the tape
goes blank – presumably marking the precise moment at which he was hit.
Reuters reported yesterday that a frame-by-frame examination of the tape
shows the shell exploding and dark shapes shooting out of it.
The Israeli military was silent last night on whether it planned to launch the "swift,
honest, and impartial investigation" into Mr Shana's death, urged by
David Shlesinger, the editor-in-chief of Reuters News, who said the medical
evidence underlined the case for such an inquiry. While expressing "sorrow"
for Mr Shana's death, a military official said the area was one in which
there was "ongoing fighting against armed, extreme and dangerous
terrorist organisations on a daily basis". The presence of media,
photographers and other uninvolved individuals in areas of warfare is
extremely dangerous and poses a threat to their lives." But Mr
Shlesinger said: "The markings on Fadel Shana's vehicle showed clearly
and unambiguously that he was a professional journalist doing his duty. We
and the military must work together urgently to understand why this tragedy
took place and how similar incidents can be avoided in the future. This
tragic incident shows the risks journalists take every day to report the
news."
The military would only say that all its weapons "are legal under
international law". Israel's Supreme Court rejected a 2003 petition
arguing that the use of flechettes as an anti-personnel weapon contravened a
1980 UN convention, but the Israeli human rights group Btselem said last
night that flechettes violated international law and demanded a criminal
investigation.
Mr Shana's friend and colleague Wissam Nassar, also 23, a photographer with
the Maan news agency, said yesterday that, alerted to reports of civilian
casualties in central Gaza, he and two colleagues had driven south in the
armoured car of photographer Mohammed Abed, of Agence France Presse.
"We parked the car at the corner [of the lane] and saw people looking
east. We saw Wafa Abu Mizyed [who was injured by shrapnel in the blast] and
he was saying 'Fadel died'." Mr Nassar added that before they managed
to get to Mr Shana's car there was an explosion perhaps 30 metres away from
what he presumed was another tank shell, which had landed ahead of them to
the east of the car.
"We all lay down in the road," he said. "I thought at first I
had been injured. There was a lot of smoke." Eventually they reached Mr
Shana's car and found his body beside his mangled tripod.
The two teenage boys from Nusseirat, Tareq al-Bana, 16, and Mohammed Abu
Hajaj, 19, said they had been there when Mr Shana had been killed by the
explosion which also injured or killed several other Palestinians, including
at least one teenager with a bicycle. They said some tyres had been burned
in the lane but that there had been no shooting from Palestinians.
Mr Nassar said Mr Shana was a fine colleague "who always wanted to make
an extra effort. He thought a lot about the future. He really wanted to be
something in Reuters." He had photographed Mr Shana last Friday when
they met on duty outside a mosque where Hamas's leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was
speaking.
The picture shows a smiling man in sunglasses with stubble and hair down to
his neck. Mr Nassar added: "He joked with me, saying keep those
pictures; you may need them some day."
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