Khaled Hamad, Palestinian Territories

The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) reported that journalist Khaled Hamad, 26, a cameraman with The Continue Agency for Television Production, was killed on July 20, 2014 when Israeli forces – as part of a military incursion into Gaza launched to end the firing of missiles into Israel by Hamas – shelled the Shejaia neighbourhood in Gaza City. Hamad was reportedly wearing a vest marked “Press” at the time of his death.

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