Israeli Missile Kills Associated Press Reporter, Translator
It was an unexploded ordinance from an airstrike.
An Associated Press video journalist and a freelance Palestinian translator were killed Wednesday when ordnance left over from the Israeli-Hamas war exploded as they were reporting on the conflict's aftermath.
Simone Camilli and Ali Shehda Abu Afash died when an unexploded missile believed to have been dropped in an Israeli airstrike blew up as Gaza police engineers were working to neutralize it in the northern town of Beit Lahiya.
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Just one AP reporter? Oh well, it's a good start.
If they knew it was there, why were they close enough to get blown up? Tragic, but avoidable.