An Israeli assault on a compound housing media staff in southern Lebanon killed no less than three journalists and injured a number of extra whereas they slept in visitor homes in Hasbaiyya.
Native media broadcast pictures from the scene on Friday exhibiting collapsed buildings and vehicles marked “press” lined in mud and particles.
The victims have been recognized as cameraman Ghassan Najjar and engineer Mohamed Reda, who labored for Al Mayadeen, the pan-Arab tv channel stated. Al-Manar TV stated its cameraman Wissam Qassim additionally died.
Journalists have been periodically attacked and confronted unprecedented hazard whereas overlaying Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon.
In November final yr, two Al Mayadeen TV journalists have been killed in a drone assault, which the community stated was deliberate.
A month earlier, Israeli bombings in southern Lebanon killed Reuters cameraman Issam Abdallah and wounded different journalists from the AFP information company and Al Jazeera.
The killing of journalists has sparked a global outcry from press advocacy teams and the United Nations, though Israel has stated it’s not intentionally concentrating on them.
The New York-based Committee to Shield Journalists, a media watchdog, stated Thursday it had preliminarily counted 128 journalists killed in Gaza for the reason that warfare started final October.
