Six years ago today, my colleague Fadel Shana set up his camera and tripod in a rural lane in Gaza to film Israeli tanks on higher ground about a mile away. A crowd of curious children gathered around him, something that often happens when journalists are filming, everywhere in the world. Soldiers in one of the tanks apparently believed Fadel’s camera and tripod were some sort of weapon. The tank fired an anti-personnel flechette shell. This is a special kind of shell designed specifically to kill a group of people: the shell explodes in the air before reaching the target area and releases a lethal swarm of thousands of metal darts. Fadel’s camera captured the firing of the shell: a flash can be seen in the gun barrel of one of the tanks, and then a few seconds later, everything goes dark. Fadel’s head was almost severed by the flechette darts that rained down on him. Several of the children around him also died. RIP Fadel.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:49:53 +0000
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