Gazans mourn slain Reuters photographer

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008

GAZA CITY (AFP) — Hundreds of mourners attended a funeral on Thursday for a Palestinian cameraman from the Reuters news service who was killed by an Israeli tank shell in the Gaza Strip.

Mourners carried the body of Fadel Shana, 23, draped in a Palestinian flag, from Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital to a nearby cemetery.

Alongside the body others held aloft a stretcher bearing his broken camera.

Shana was killed on Wednesday by a shell fired from an Israeli tank he was filming from several hundred metres (yards) away during a military incursion into Gaza that killed 17 other Palestinians, Reuters said.

He had been standing next to a jeep clearly marked with "TV" and "Press" stickers, Reuters said.

A videotape found in the camera shows a wide...

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