Image Credit: Mohammed Omer - Rafah Today 2006-08-27.
Reuters Car Hit by IDF Helicopters
Rafah Today via BBSNews 2006-08-28 -- By Mohammed Omer. Reporter Steve Centanni, a US national, and freelance cameraman Olaf Wiig from New Zealand, were driven to their Beach hotel in Gaza City to embraces from colleagues and rushed inside by black-clad Palestinian security officials this afternoon.
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Ismail Haneya with the two journalists following their release.
Image Credit: Mohammed Omer - Rafah Today 2006-08-27. |
Describing the ordeal as a "trauma", Centanni burst into tears as he walked into the hotel. The two men spent 13 days as captives of the previously unknown Holy Jihad Brigades, which had demanded that all Muslim prisoners be freed from US jails. The Palestinian prime minister Ismail Hanyeh gave orders to all police members to investigate and find the two foreign journalists who were kidnapped by unknown people. Hanyeh was there to welcome the two journalists at Beach Hotel in Gaza City after they were released together with the wife of one of the journalists who was waiting for her husband Steve Centanni to come back.
In another incident in the Eastern part of Gaza, Israeli war crimes continue as two Hamas members were killed and 7 others injured including two journalists who were inside a car belonging to the Reuter News Agency.
The damage caused by the Israeli helicopters hit the bullet-proof car leaving damage to the car as well as two journalists seriously injured. The two Palestinian journalists are Fadel Shanaa, 22. and Sad Al Sabah, 26. Targetting journalists while covering events is not a new crime in Palestine.
Mohammed Omer is a young journalist/photographer in the Gaza Strip. He and his family have a very rough time in living day to day and they have lost much. In October of 2003, one of Mohammed's younger bothers, Issam, was injured and had to have a leg amputated. Later in the same month another younger brother, Hussam Al-Mouhagir, was killed in his home; shot to death by the Israeli Army that occupies and regularly devastates Palestine. These stories are written by Mohammed who knows no peace, only the continued devastation forced upon civilians who have little voice in the world. Mohammed has covered the Occupied Territories for several years. Visit Mohammed's Web site to get a more complete picture of what is really happening that main-stream news sources rarely brings to its audience.
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