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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)
Wed Jul 30, 2014, 03:50 PM Jul 2014

VIDEO: Death of a Photojournalist in Gaza

From Greg Mitchell:

http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2014/07/death-of-photo-journalist.html

Death of a Photo Journalist

If you can handle this, video shot in the middle of the shelling at the Gaza market--you'll see the journalist, in blue with camera, near the start. Just horrible, never seen anything quite like it, even in the past two weeks. Also dead and injured kids on the ground. Send it to your president and Congress person. Now wait for the apologists to claim this is fake.

VIDEO AT LINK

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VIDEO: Death of a Photojournalist in Gaza (Original Post) Hissyspit Jul 2014 OP
Yeah that's a real one PAProgressive28 Jul 2014 #1
This isn't the first, either; they have been targetting press cars, PDJane Jul 2014 #2
I don't think they even have to be helping Palestinians PAProgressive28 Jul 2014 #3
Firefighters on the job too. lpbk2713 Jul 2014 #4
Beside an ambulance... countryjake Jul 2014 #5
high-profile news events which are heavily covered across all newsmedia seveneyes Jul 2014 #6
If not, it should be. Nt kelliekat44 Jul 2014 #7
Yes, it is... Spazito Jul 2014 #10
You don't think that the attacks on Gaza are high-profile news events? countryjake Jul 2014 #12
Of course I do seveneyes Jul 2014 #13
A little too scripted? BlindTiresias Jul 2014 #14
Personalized? A journalist falls, so another picks up his running camera... countryjake Jul 2014 #15
Now, multiply that by a thousand, and you have Gaza. Comrade Grumpy Jul 2014 #8
I saw the report of his death on twitter this morning Marrah_G Jul 2014 #9
Required viewing for all people of conscience. johnnyreb Jul 2014 #11

PDJane

(10,103 posts)
2. This isn't the first, either; they have been targetting press cars,
Wed Jul 30, 2014, 04:04 PM
Jul 2014

ambulances, UN cars.......apparently, anyone who even assists the Palestinians is disposable.

This is not war; it's an exercise in murdering civilians.

countryjake

(8,554 posts)
5. Beside an ambulance...
Wed Jul 30, 2014, 04:56 PM
Jul 2014

Rami Rayan was a photographer working for the Palestinian Network for Journalism and Media. Twitter reports are saying that along with the journalist, two emergency paramedics, and a member of the civilian civil defense crew were also killed by Israeli artillery...at least 17 deaths at that Shuja'iyya market, many many injured.



Journalist Rami Rayan Killed in Gaza Attack
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/30/rami-rayan-killed-dead-gaza-attack_n_5634548.html




Rami Rayan, a Palestinian photojournalist, was killed on Wednesday in an Israeli air strike on a busy market in Gaza.

The attack killed at least 16 people and wounded over 150 more. Rayan, a photographer reportedly working for a local website, was wearing a helmet and a vest marked "PRESS" vest when he was found among the dead in the Shijaiyah neighborhood of Gaza.

His death was reported by BBC's Shahdi Alkashif and others on Twitter on Wednesday, and a photographer for AFP/Getty captured images of his corpse (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT AT LINK).



Israeli shelling of Shujaiyya market kills 17 despite ceasefire
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=716994

Despite a four-hour humanitarian ceasefire that began at 3:00 p.m., Israeli forces on Wednesday afternoon shelled a market in Shujaiyya as well as number of homes across the Gaza Strip, killing at least 35.

Gaza Ministry of Health spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said around 6 p.m. that an Israeli airstrike had hit Shujaiyya market, killing at least 17, including a journalist, and injuring 200, including many seriously.

The Red Cross confirmed the numbers, saying many of the injured would need to be amputated.

Thick black smoke billowed over the site in the war-torn Shujaiyya neighborhood as at least five ambulances raced to the scene where bodies lay strewn on the ground, an AFP correspondent said.
 

seveneyes

(4,631 posts)
6. high-profile news events which are heavily covered across all newsmedia
Wed Jul 30, 2014, 05:12 PM
Jul 2014

Is this a high-profile news event that is heavily covered across all newsmedia?

countryjake

(8,554 posts)
12. You don't think that the attacks on Gaza are high-profile news events?
Thu Jul 31, 2014, 04:52 PM
Jul 2014

The fact that Israeli forces are indiscriminately killing innocent civilians of Gaza, children and elderly people, non-combatant men and women, emergency medical workers and ambulance drivers and firemen and other desperately needed members of civil response teams...that is most certainly a very high-profile news event.

That they are killing the journalists (up to eight innocent reporters are dead now, the new tally since yesterday's attack on the Shuja'iyya market), means that word of the atrocities, the hell-fire attacks, each very high-profile news event is less and less likely to ever be known by the rest of the world.


Two Palestinian journalists killed during Israeli attack on Gaza Thursday 31 July 2014

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/jul/31/gaza-palestinian-territories


Journalists Sameh Al-Aryan (left) and Ramu Rayan, who were killed in the Israeli shelling of Shojayah market.
Photo release by IFJ

Two Palestinian journalists were killed in Gaza yesterday, taking the journalistic toll to eight since the Israeli bombardment began a month ago.

According to an affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS), the two journalists were killed in the artillery shelling of Shojayah market. A third journalist was seriously injured.

The two who died were Sameh Al-Aryan, 26, of Al-Aqsa TV, and photojournalist Rami Rayan, 25, who worked for the Palestinian Media Network. Photojournalist Hamed Shobaky, of Manara Media, was severely wounded in the same incident.

Ahed Zaqout, 49, a presenter on Palestine TV sport programmes, was killed in his apartment during an attack on the Italian tower in Gaza City.

Jim Boumelha, the IFJ president, said: "We express our anger and condemnation at the killing of these journalists, the latest victims in this ongoing cycle of intimidation, violence and murder against media workers in Palestine.
 

seveneyes

(4,631 posts)
13. Of course I do
Thu Jul 31, 2014, 05:21 PM
Jul 2014

I was speaking to the personalized video referenced in the OP. It appeared to be a little too scripted.

countryjake

(8,554 posts)
15. Personalized? A journalist falls, so another picks up his running camera...
Thu Jul 31, 2014, 06:02 PM
Jul 2014

and makes his way to take cover from the Israeli bombing. Why would you think it is "too scripted"?

Is Rami Rayan not dead? Did Israel not shell that Shuja'iyya market? What's "scripted"?

I saw the very same video on CNN late last night, in which the commentator fully explained the circumstances of the incident.

No "scripting" involved.


Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions
Free Palestine!

Marrah_G

(28,581 posts)
9. I saw the report of his death on twitter this morning
Wed Jul 30, 2014, 05:34 PM
Jul 2014

It's heartbreaking to watch the video.

No one can defend Israels actions in this.

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