Hundreds of colleagues and friends have attended the funeral of a popular and widely respected Palestinian video journalist who was killed as he covered Friday’s mass border protests in the Gaza Strip. Yasser Murtaja, 31, was shot despite wearing a flak jacket with clear press markings as he filmed in thick black smoke from burning tyres set alight by protesters in Khuzaa, east of Khan Yunis. He was one of at least nine Palestinians killed by Israeli fire at various points along the border during the day. Friday’s deaths brought to 31 the total of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in the past week. Fatah refused to recognise the result, leading to a near-civil war that saw Hamas push Fatah out of Gaza.

Source: The Guardian April 07, 2018 16:53 UTC