AP Video Journalist, Freelance Translator Killed in Gaza

AP logo GSimone Camilli and Ali Shehda Abu Afash — an Associated Press video journalist and a freelance translator, respectively — have been killed in Gaza while covering the conflict there.

The pair, along with three police engineers, were killed when an unexploded missile detonated as the engineers attempted to disarm it. The missile was thought to have been dropped during an Israeli attack. Another AP staffer, photographer Hatem Moussa, was badly injured by the explosion.

Camilli had worked for the AP since 2005. Abu

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