An Associated Press video journalist and a freelance Palestinian translator assisting him were killed in an ordnance explosion Wednesday while working on an assignment about the aftermath about the recent war in Gaza.
Simone Camilli and Ali Shehda Abu Afash died when ordnance left over from fighting between Israel and Hamas terrorists blew up as Gazan police engineers were working to neutralize it in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya.
Police said three police engineers were also killed, while four people, including AP photographer Hatem Moussa, were badly injured.
Camilli, an Italian national, had worked for The Associated Press since being hired as a freelancer in Rome in 2005. He relocated to Jerusalem in 2006, and often covered assignments in Gaza.
Najib Jobain, the AP’s chief producer in Gaza, said Camilli was a welcome face in Gaza who loved the story so much that he recently turned down an assignment in Iraq to come to the seaside strip.
(AP)
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What story did he love that his compatriots r a bunch of lolife murderers? How touching
sounds like the same geniuses who flew the planes on 9/11. takeoff and flying they could do – landing they had no clue. these idiots can make missiles and shoot them – not to good at dismantling them however.
Shed no tears for journalists.