Mazen al-Tumeizi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Journalist killed in Iraq
Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1979
Place of Birth: Idhna, State of Palestine
Date of Death: 12-Sep-2004
Profession: journalist
Nationality: State of Palestine
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Mazen al-Tumeizi
- Mazen al-Tumeizi (Arabic: ???? ???????? also transliterated Mazen Tumesi, c.
- July 5, 1979 – September 12, 2004) was a Palestinian journalist, killed on-camera in Baghdad, Iraq by U.S.
- helicopter gunfire while covering the Haifa Street helicopter incident.
- His last moments were recorded by the camera he had been reporting into, including his dying words as he gasped to his cameraman.
- The graphic tape of his death sparked an increase in concern for journalists reporting in occupied Iraq, as well as outrage in the Arab world. Tumeizi was a Palestinian reporter for Saudi-owned news networks al-Arabiya and al-Ikhbariya.
- He was the third al-Arabiya journalist to be killed in Iraq by U.S.
- forces, after reporter Ali al-Khatib and cameraman Ali Abdelaziz. Tumeizi died during the Haifa Street helicopter incident.
- The footage shows Tumeizi covering a group of curious Iraqis ululating around the wreckage of a U.S.
- Bradley Fighting Vehicle that had been recently abandoned after suffering damage from an improvised roadside bomb attack.
- A loud explosion can then be heard, followed by layers of smoke and debris.
- Tumeizi collapses from the impact, falling toward the camera, and the camera's lens is spattered with his blood as he falls.
- The cameraman (identified by Tumeizi as "Seif") loses focus, but Tumeizi's last words are captured in the camera's audio feed: I'm going to die.
- I'm going to die.
- Seif.
- Seif.
- I'm going to die."Seif" would later be identified as Reuters camera operator Seif Fouad, who was also injured in a subsequent rocket strike.[1]
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