Eighteen Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers were killed on Wednesday in a daylong of mutual Israeli and Palestinian attacks in several Gaza Strip areas, Israeli and Palestinian sources said.

A local cameraman who works for Reuters Television was killed on Wednesday afternoon in an Israeli airstrike on his car in central Gaza Strip, Palestinian witnesses and medics reported.

Faddel Ouda Shana'a, a local cameraman who works for Reuters Television, was killed on Wednesday afternoon in an Israeli airstrike on his car in central Gaza Strip. [Xinhua Photo]

Witnesses said that an Israeli artillery shell hit the gray Hyundai jeep of Faddel Ouda Shana'a, with press signs on it, in the neighborhood of Johr el-Deik east of al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip.

Medics at al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza Strip said that Shana 'a was killed in the shelling and his body was brought to the hospital.

Meanwhile, 12 Palestinians were killed and 20 wounded on Wednesday afternoon in Israeli strike on the neighborhood of Johrel-Deik east of al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, medics said.