WEST BANK/IRAQ: THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ATTEND FUNERAL OF AL-ARABIYA JOURNALIST MAZEN TOMEIZI KILLED BY A U.S. HELICOPTER WHILE FILMING CLASHES IN BAGHDAD

Record ID: 566217

  • Title: WEST BANK/IRAQ: THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ATTEND FUNERAL OF AL-ARABIYA JOURNALIST MAZEN TOMEIZI KILLED BY A U.S. HELICOPTER WHILE FILMING CLASHES IN BAGHDAD
  • Date: 14th September 2004
  • Summary: (U6) HEBRON, WEST BANK (SEPTEMBER 14 2004) (REUTERS) 1. CU: MOURNING POSTER FOR MAZEN TOMEIZI, A NATIVE OF HEBRON, WHO WAS KILLED ON SEPTEMBER 12 IN IRAQ 0.04 2. BODY BEING REMOVED FROM AMBULANCE FOR FUNERAL PROCESSION; HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AROUND AMBULANCE 0.12 3. BODY BEING CARRIED THROUGH STREETS (2 SHOTS) 0.29 4. YOUTHS WITH FLAGS, INCLUDING IRAQI ONE, IN PROCESSION 0.39 5. BODY BEING CARRIED 0.49 6. TOP VIEW OF PROCESSION 1.03 7. VIEW FROM BEHIND STRETCHER; PEOPLE TOUCHING TOMEIZI 1.20 8. MORE OF FUNERAL PROCESSION (U6) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (SEPTEMBER 12, 2004) (REUTERS) 9. AL-ARABIYA PRODUCER MAZEN TOMEIZIRI DOING PIECE TO CAMERA FILMED BY REUTERS CAMERMAN ON STREET/ TOMEIZIRI BEING SHOT 1.56 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 29th September 2004 13:00
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  • Location: HEBRON, WEST BANK
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  • Country: West Bank West Bank Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAB9Y77CY4Z1U8TEYND2SLAU5O9
  • Story Text: Funeral held today for the correspondent from
    Al-Arabiya killed in Baghdad on September 12.


    Several thousand people turned out in the West Bank
    city of Hebron on Tuesday for the funeral of Mazen Tomeizi,
    a Palestinian producer for the Dubai-based al Arabiya news
    channel and for Saudi Arabian TV channel Ikhbariya, who was
    killed in central Baghdad while filming clashes between
    Iraqi insurgents and U.S. forces.

    Tomeizi was buried as a martyr, his body swathed in a
    white shroud and carried through the streets of the
    southern West Bank city. Carried by six pall bearers, the
    crowd chanted 'God is Great' and waving Palestinian and
    Iraqi flags.

    Witnesses said the 26-year-old was killed when a U.S.

    helicopter fired into a crowd of Iraqis cheering around a
    military vehicle torched during fighting in Haifa street,
    an area notorious as a stronghold for anti-U.S. guerrillas.

    An Iraqi Reuters cameraman was also wounded in the
    incident.

    At least 22 people died in violence which erupted in
    the Iraqi capital on Sunday morning as the U.S. military
    pressed on with new offensives to retake control of
    guerrilla-held areas ahead of national elections due to be
    held in January.

    Tomeizi is the third Arabiya journalist to die in Iraq
    following the U.S.-led invasion 18 months ago. He is the
    second journalist from Hebron to die in just over a year.

    Reuters Television cameraman Mazen Dana was killed by U.S.

    gunfire in Iraq on August 17 2003.

    Iraqi cameraman Ali Abdelaziz and correspondent Ali
    al-Khatib died in March after U.S. troops opened fire on
    their car in Baghdad.


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