An Israeli assault on a compound housing media staff in southern Lebanon has killed at least three journalists and wounded a number of others as they slept in guesthouses in Hasbaiyya.
Native media aired footage from the scene on Friday exhibiting collapsed buildings and vehicles marked “press” lined in mud and rubble.
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 digicam operator Wissam Qassim was additionally killed.
Journalists have been often focused and confronted unprecedented risks whereas protecting Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon.
In November final 12 months, two journalists for Al Mayadeen TV have been killed in a drone strike, which the community stated was deliberate.
A month earlier, Israeli shelling in southern Lebanon killed Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah and wounded different journalists from the AFP information company and Al Jazeera.
The killing of journalists has prompted a world outcry from press advocacy teams and the United Nations, though Israel has stated it doesn’t intentionally goal them.
The New York-based Committee to Shield Journalists, a media watchdog, stated on Thursday that it had preliminarily counted 128 journalists killed in Gaza because the battle started final October.