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Middle East
Teevee cameraman shot in the face in West Bank
2002-03-30
  • A Palestinian television cameraman was wounded in the face on Friday while driving a van through the streets of the West Bank city of Ramallah after it was occupied by Israeli forces retaliating for Palestinian terror attacks. Video footage filmed by a passenger in the car showed bullets penetrating the windshield, some of them shattering the van's back window as they exited. The source of fire was not clear from the footage. At least one bullet struck cameraman Carlos Handal in the mouth. He managed to stop and get out of the van - which was marked with "TV" signs - holding his face with one hand. He was hospitalized in moderate condition.

    Handal, from the West Bank city of Bethlehem, works as a free-lance cameraman for Abu Dhabi TV and the Egyptian-based Nile TV, fellow journalists said. Daniel Seaman, an Israeli government spokesman, said Israeli troops do not shoot at media vehicles. He said the incident wouldn't be investigated. "There is a war going on," he said. "Ramallah is closed to the media. There is no way to find the source of the shooting, and we told journalists this morning that they enter Ramallah at their own risk."
    That's Hebrew for "Come talk to me when you have something important to discuss." If he'd been wounded covering something else - say, a Jewish Passover dinner in a nice hotel - then it would come as a surprise. Driving down the road in the middle of a firefight doesn't qualify.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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