29 December 2017 | CPJ
Cameraman killed by shelling
Crossfire
Karam Kabishou, a cameraman for the pro-government Syrian television channel Sama TV, was killed in shelling on December 29, 2017, while covering clashes between the Syrian Arab Army and the opposition militia Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Al-Nusra Front), near the village of Umm Haratin, in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, according to news reports and the Syrian Journalists Association.
Abdulghani Jaroukh, a correspondent for Sama TV in Hama and Idlib, sustained light injuries in the stomach as a result of the same blast and was transferred for treatment to the National Hospital in Hama, news reports said.
The shelling was carried out by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, according to reports and local press freedom groups.
Kabishou was filming three soldiers from the pro-Assad Syrian Army walking toward the journalist when a shell exploded near him, according to a video posted by Sama TV on YouTube on December 30. Kabishou was wearing protective head gear at the time, but shrapnel hit his head and killed him, according to a voiceover in the video. The video includes footage that Kabishou shot in the lead up to his death, as he covered the troops’ advances in southwestern Idlib.
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