Posted on 08/13/2014 11:41:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
An unexploded munition detonated in Gaza on Wednesday during an attempt to neutralize that device. Six were killed in that explosion, including one of Gaza’s top explosives decommissioning expert and an Associated Press photographer.
Simone Camilli, 35, died Wednesday when Gaza police engineers were neutralizing unexploded ordnance in the Gaza town of Beit Lahiya left over from fighting between Israel and Islamic militants.
Camilli and a translator working with the AP, Ali Shehda Abu Afash, were accompanying the ordnance team on assignment when the explosion occurred. The police said four other people were seriously injured, including AP photographer Hatem Moussa.
Camilli, an Italian national, had worked for The Associated Press since 2005.
Camilli is the first foreign journalist killed over the course of the more than one-month-old conflict in Gaza.
The situation in Gaza is increasingly tense as the current ceasefire agreement, which has held since Sunday, is set to expire at midnight. Both Israeli and Gazan negotiators are mulling an Egyptian ceasefire proposal which appears to have fallen short of both Israeli and Hamas’s demands.
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Three shall be the count...
Marinara sauce.
“A number of explosives experts were killed while dismantling a missile in Beit Lahiya. Among them was a foreign journalist,” Hamas Interior Ministry spokesperson Iyad al-Buzam told AFP.
I like this translation better. They make the journalist one of the bomb experts.
Hamas has been trying to gin up some dead western journalists for a while now, to gin up the Western Media outrage.
Why does this sound like a set-up?
They must not have been as ‘expert’ as they thought....................
Nice post............full of compassion.
That was what I expected. The article did not say what the device was and since it was in Gaza that told me it was from Hamas (since they would have said it, if it was from Israel). Next I surmised it was a missile. Thanks for confirming it.
Article says “.... when ordnance left over from fighting between Israel and Islamic militants blew up as Gazan police engineers were working to neutralize it in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya.”
If Hamas can make it out to Israelis missile/bomb, we’d hear it on front page news now.
It was a “dud” Israeli missile.
Hmmmm, I thought there was nothing to fear from these poorly made non-targeted missiles Hamas fires into Israel, and it’s own territory.
Perhaps now that a member of the press and five others have died, and a number of others have been seriously wounded due to one of them exploding, we can expect more candid portrayals of their true danger in the future.
Thousands of these have been fired off into Israel. Not so innocent now is it!
“It was a “dud” Israeli missile.”
It did not appear to be any kind of modern ordinance that I have ever seen.
It looked like a cobbled together piece of homemade rocketry or IED topped with a large mortar round for the big bang.
5!
Why have compassion for a terrorist-enabling propagandist from AP?
Having not said that the device was Israeli, it can be thereby confirmed it was a Hamas device.
Where did you get that piece of information?
“neutralizing unexploded ordnance” = moving it to be repurposed into an IED at a tunnel entrance.
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