https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/70000517
Object description
Land Rover used by Reuters in Gaza. Suffered damage in a rocket attack, August 2006
Label
Reuters Press Agency armoured Land Rover damaged by an Israeli rocket strike on Gaza in 2006. Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana, and a local journalist were injured in the attack.
History note
This vehicle was operating in the Gaza Strip near the Karni Crossing when on 26 August 2006 it was hit by a rocket (or a substantial fragment thereof) fired by an Israeli helicopter. Both occupants were injured. The rocket (or fragment thereof) entered through the roof of the vehicle, above and slightly to the left of the front passenger seat, passing through the floor into the gearbox. Reuters made an official complaint to the Israeli authorities, asking why it was fired upon when it was so clearly marked as a Press vehicle. One occupant, Sabbah Hmaida (journalist in the passenger seat), was badly injured in the legs, while the other, Fadel Shana (cameraman), suffered minor injuries. Photographs showing the injured men entering hospital were taken by an AFP (French Press Agency) photographer. Two years later Fadel Shana was killed when the marked Press vehicle he was travelling in (again in Gaza) was destroyed by an Israeli tank shell. Shana's Palestinian Authority press id card was found in the glovebox of the car when being conserved (held with acquisition paperwork).