Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana has been killed in Gaza in an explosion which also claimed the lives of two bystanders.

Shana,
23, was travelling in a car that had stopped and was killed in an
explosion as he was getting out of it, Reuters said. A Reuters
soundman, Wafa Abu Mizyed, also travelling in the vehicle escaped
serious injury.

The cameraman, who had worked for the news agency
in the region for more than three years, is the first Reuters
journalist to be killed in Gaza.

Shana, a Palestinian, had
previously been wounded in August 2006 when an Israeli aircraft fired a
missile at the vehicle he was travelling in.

Reuters editor-in-chief David Schlesinger called for an investigation into the incident.

“This tragic incident shows the risks journalists take every day to report the news,” Schlesinger said.

“All
governments and organisations have a responsibility to take the utmost
care to protect professionals trying to do their jobs. We request an
immediate investigation into the incident by the Israeli defence
forces.”

Reuters has 70 journalists covering the Israeli and Palestinian region, 15 of them in Gaza.