Yaser (or Yasser) Murtaja (Arabic: ياسر مرتجى,[1] 1987/1988 – 6 April 2018[2]) was a Palestinian video journalist and photographer from the Gaza Strip.
[6] The documentary covers Bisan Daher after she survived an Israeli attack on Gaza's Shujayea neighborhood that killed six members of her family.
[10][11][12] He was also a videographer for Ai Weiwei's Journey of Laziz, a video installation shown in a temporary exhibit at The Israel Museum.
[13][6] In March 2018, under a photo of Gaza's port, Murtaja wrote: "I hope the day that I can take this image when I am in the sky instead of on the ground will come!
While he was more than 100 metres (330 ft) away from the border, wearing a flak jacket marked "press", he was shot in an exposed area just below the armpit.
His body was covered with a Palestinian flag, and his press jacket laid on the stretcher as it was carried through the streets of Gaza City.
[2] The Foreign Press Association in Israel and the Palestinian territories called on the Israeli army to conduct a fast and open investigation and to show restraint in areas where journalists work.
[10] Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Secretary-General Christophe Deloire condemned Israel's disproportionate response to the protests and called for an independent investigation into the incident.
[citation needed] It added that seven other reporters were injured in the 6 April protest, in what they described as "deliberate crimes committed by the Israeli army".
[19] Israeli-Arab Zionist Union member of Knesset Zouheir Bahloul asked that the person who shot Murtaja be put on trial.
"[21][5] Israel's Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman suggested that Murtaja had flown a drone above soldiers when he was shot.