PARIS, Feb 15: In a letter sent to the Israeli Chief of Staff, Shaul Moffaz, Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders - RSF) protested the Israeli’s army shooting at the car of Sagui Bashan in Netzarim in the Gaza Strip.

Sagui Bashan is a journalist for Israel’s second television channel.

According to information received by RSF, on 14 February, when Sagui Bashan, journalist for the second Israeli television channel was leaving the Gaza Strip where he had spent part of the evening covering the Israeli army incursion into the area, at about 10pm he was stopped at a military barricade in Netzarim.

After having shown his press card to the soldiers, he asked to see the order from a superior officer stating that it was a “closed military territory”.

When the soldiers told him they didn’t have such a document, the journalist started off. After he’d driven a few metres, the soldiers opened fire on his car.

He was wounded in the shoulder. The journalist was admitted during the night to Soroka Hospital in the town of Bersheva.