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Fadel Shana, a 24-year-old Palestinian, was killed on April 16, along with eight bystanders aged from 12 to 20, by darts known as flechettes that burst from a tank bomb in mid-air. Shana was filming about 1.5 km (a mile) from two Israeli tanks.

The London-based news agency has commissioned an independent advertise into the incident that found in that place was no fighting or militant activity in the immediate area where Shana was working in view of the tanks, about 100 meters (yards) from a busy thoroughfare.

No other casualty in the attack, in which a cistern fired brace flechette shells, was armed. Shana, whose car and body amour bore "Press" markings, filmed from a tripod for some minutes before his camera recorded the destructive shell being fired.

The Israeli army has yet to overture an tale but has said its soldiers followed their orders and did nothing bad. While cautioning journalists that they work in conflict zones at their own risk, the legions said it aims to avoid killing journalists.

Reuters has written to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) to ask how, in that case, the troops failed to identify Shana as a cameraman — nor other victims as children and other civilians.

"We have a what one ought to do to our employees and their families to determine exactly what happened on that day, both to establish the exact cause of Fadel's death and to identify any action we be possible to have recourse to to improve the security of Reuters News staff onward assignment in hostile environments," Reuters Middle East Managing Editor Mark Thompson wrote be unconsumed week.

"The IDF has had plenty of time to deportment a thorough investigation into the killing of Shana," Thompson wrote.

Among questions Reuters has asked the IDF's senior form officer was what particular information led the soldiers to dismiss the possibility that Shana was a television cameraman.

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Army spokeswoman Major Avital Leibovich said: "We are in the step of checking a few added distinct parts in order to complete the picture. As shortly as we have the conclusions we will experience them."

The delay in clarifying Shana's death has made it difficult for media groups to set guidelines for staff in Gaza on how to avoid a repeat, creating problems in occasion for coverage of troops mode of action in the Palestinian enclave. On Monday, Gaza journalists plan to demonstrate in protest at the lack of an explanation.

Media groups operating in the Palestinian enclave have been urging the Israeli military to improve troops' awareness of the presence of journalists and to coordinate where possible.

Rejecting a request that IDF officers reinforcement information to field commanders from journalists about their movements in Gaza to avoid media crews being inadvertently targeted, the body of troops said in a specification last month: "There will be nay coordination of press movement and activity in the areas of IDF operations."

The report commissioned through Reuters originate that Shana observed safety guidelines and took all reasonable precautions.

(Editing by Ralph Boulton)