Human Rights Watch calls for investigation of civilian deaths

: State Of Israel must look into the decease of a television camera operator and three others who were killed in an Israeli work stoppage in Gaza, the New York-based grouping Person Rights Watch said Saturday.

In Gaza City, newsmen on Saturday attended a aftermath for Fadel Shana, the 23-year-old camera operator for the Reuters news federal agency who was killed Wednesday. He was the first Gaza journalist to be killed in the district in the past eight old age of Israeli-Palestinian fighting.

Human Rights Watch said in a statement that its ain probe proposes that an Israeli army tank crew fired either recklessly or deliberately at Shana and three others standing near him. At the time, there were conflicts between Israeli military units and militants, but the camera operator wasn't fold to fighting, the statement said.

The Israeli human rights grouping B'Tselem said earlier this hebdomad it have collected grounds that Shana was killed by a so-called flechette army tank shell that spewed bantam darts over a broad radius.

Reuters have released Shana's concluding picture which showed a army tank on a distant brow unfastened fire. About a 2nd later, the image turns black. Shana was wearing a bulletproof jacket marked with "Press" at the clip and his vehicle was also marked with "TV" signs. Today in Africa & Center East

"Israeli soldiers did not do certain they were aiming at a military mark before firing," said Joe Stork, from Person Rights Watch. "There is grounds suggesting they actually targeted the journalists."

Israel's regular army have said it is looking into Shana's death, but will go on to utilize flechette shells. Rights groupings state the arm is inappropriate for densely populated countries like the Gaza Strip.

Shana was the first Gazan camera operator to decease in the conflict. In response, many of his amazed co-workers have got posted Shana's image on their facebook profiles and taped his exposure to their cars.

Eight other journalists were killed covering the Occident Depository Financial Institution and Gaza Strip since 1992, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.

On Saturday, newsmen in Gaza plastered their autos with images of Shana retention his photographic camera and drove through Gaza City in a convoy, despite combustible deficits have got paralyzed most motion in the territory.