AP confirms that one of its video journalists was killed in Gaza and Italy confirms his identity as Simone Camilli.
He was among at least five people killed in northern Gaza on Wednesday as Palestinian experts were dismantling a leftover Israeli missile, medics and officials said.
Emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said five people had been killed and several more seriously wounded.
“A number of explosives experts were killed while dismantling an (Israeli) missile in Beit Lahiya,” interior ministry spokesman Iyad al-Buzam told AFP.
Camilli was killed while covering the work to dismantle the unexploded missile, although there was no official word on the victim’s identity.
At least one other local journalist was badly wounded, an AFP correspondent said.
— AFP contributed to this report.
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