(MENAFN) On Sunday, the Israeli army confessed that Palestinian reporter Yaser Murtaja, was killed despite not posing any threat to Israeli soldiers, according to Israel's Haaretz daily.
The story noted that the Israeli army refuted Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman's statement that Murtaja was using a drone to film the demonstrations.
"I don't know if he (Murtaja) was a journalist as many 'terrorists' disguise themselves as journalists. He was also filming with a drone, which posed a threat to Israeli soldiers," Liberman said Saturday, defending the Israeli soldiers.
Conferming that Murtaja wearing a vest marked 'PRESS', the report also noted that the Israeli army found no evidence that any other journalists were filming the events using drones.
Murtaja is a photographer with the Gaza-based Ain Media agency as well as a co-founder of the Media Production Company which is made up of a dozen Palestinian media professionals, has been covering the events taking place near Gaza's border with Israel since Friday.
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