Al Jazeera has announced that one of its cameramen, Ali Hassan Al Jaber, was killed after a reporting team for the Arabic-language channel was ambushed by government forces near the town of Benghazi.

Wadah Khanfar, the director general of the Al Jazeera Network, announced the death in broadcast remakrs, saying "the network will not be silent after death of our cameraman" and would seek to prosecute the perpetrators.

One of the earliest tweets of the news was from Rawya Rageh, an Al Jazeera reporter:

A photo of the deceased:

Translation of Khanfar's tweet: God bless the martyr Ali Hassan Jabber.

Al Jabber is unfortunately not the first Al Jazeera employee to be killed while reporting.

Abdullah Mussa, a producer for AJE currently in Libya (and a friend of mine), adds:

A day earlier, Mussa had posted a link to an AJE report from Libya, saying "The moment I nearly lost my life... full uncut video of what happened to be released once I am out of Libya and have time to edit it..."

The slain cameraman was a Qatari national. Mohammed bin Hamad, the son of Qatar's ruling emir, weighed in on Twitter saying:

Those who read Arabic can see read the longer article here:

As word of the killing continues to spread, more come to Al Jazeera's defense: