Makari wrote on the
He added: “There were 18 journalists at the scene representing 7 media organizations. This is a war crime.”
What happened?
- 3 Lebanese journalists were killed in Israeli raid on Journalists’ residence in Hasbaya In the south LebanonAccording to what Lebanese government media reported on Friday morning.
- She said Al-Mayadeen Channel Independent Arab, which is based in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, said two of its team were among the journalists killed early Friday.
- Al-Manara TV, affiliated with the Lebanese Hezbollah group, said that cameraman Wissam Qassem was killed in the raid on the journalists’ headquarters in Hasbaya, which had so far been spared from the fighting along the border.
- Al-Mayadeen TV reported that the channel’s cameraman, Ghassan Najjar, and the channel’s broadcast engineer, Muhammad Reda, were also killed in the raid.
It is noteworthy that many journalists have been killed since the exchange of fire began along the Lebanese-Israeli border in early October last year.
In November 2023, two journalists working for Al-Mayadeen TV were killed in a drone strike.
A month before that, Asfar Israeli bombing In southern Lebanon, Issam Abdullah, a photographer with Reuters, was killed and other journalists from the French International Press Agency, Agence France-Presse, and the Qatari Al Jazeera channel were injured.