{"id":3095,"date":"2008-04-19T18:11:33","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T23:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3095"},"modified":"2008-04-19T18:11:33","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T23:11:33","slug":"israel-investigate-death-of-gaza-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3095","title":{"rendered":"Israel: Investigate Death of Gaza Civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\"><em>Evidence Suggests Soldiers Targeted Reuters Journalist<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" width=\"263\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/isrlpa18600.jpg?resize=250%2C200\" border=\"1\" alt=\"An ambulance passes by the burning vehicle of Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana after he was killed in Gaza on April 16, 2008. \u00a9 2008 Reuters\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" \/><span style=\"color: gray; font-size: xx-small;\"><br \/>\nAn ambulance passes by the burning vehicle of Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana after he was killed in Gaza on April 16, 2008. \u00a9 2008 Reuters<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>(Jerusalem, April 20, 2008) \u2013 The Israeli government should conduct an immediate and independent investigation into the deaths of four civilians, including a Reuters cameraman and two teenage boys, in Gaza on April 16, 2008, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch\u2019s investigations at the site found evidence suggesting that an Israeli tank crew fired recklessly or deliberately at the journalist\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsraeli soldiers did not make sure they were aiming at a military target before firing, and there is evidence suggesting they actually targeted the journalists,\u201d said Joe Stork, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. \u201cIsrael should investigate these deaths and, if crimes were committed, hold to account those responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fadel Shana\u2019a, a 23-year-old cameraman employed by Reuters, was killed as he was filming the tank close to Gaza\u2019s border with Israel, southeast of Gaza City. Three other persons were killed as they watched Shana\u2019a filming. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pchrgaza.org\/\">Palestinian Center for Human Rights<\/a> identified them as Ahmed \u2018Aaref Farajallah, 14, Ghassan Khaled Abu \u2018Otaiwi, 17, and Khalil Isma\u2019il Dughmosh, 22.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/english\/docs\/2008\/04\/19\/isrlpa18600.htm\">Continue reading<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidence Suggests Soldiers Targeted Reuters Journalist An ambulance passes by the burning vehicle of Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana after he was killed in Gaza on April 16, 2008. \u00a9 2008 Reuters (Jerusalem, April 20, 2008) \u2013 The Israeli government should &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3095\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-NV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}