Palestinian Journalist Fatally Shot While Covering Gaza Protest
Yaser Murtaja was wearing a vest marked "PRESS" when he was hit by Israeli fire along the Gaza-Israel border. The 30-year-old was reportedly one of six reporters shot during the demonstrations.
Palestinian photojournalist Yaser Murtaja covered plenty of funeral processions during the 2014 war in Gaza.
Now his colleagues are covering his death.
They encircled his body, holding their cameras high, as he was carried out of Gaza's main hospital on Saturday. They marched through the streets on their way to funeral prayers at the territory's central mosque. Draped across his body was a Palestinian flag and a blue reporter's flak vest.
Just one day before, Murtaja, 30, was at Gaza has seen since the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas, the militant group that controls the Palestinian territory.
