The Israeli military stated Saturday it was investigating an incident in southern Lebanon in which a Reuters journalist was killed.The information got here the identical day Lebanon's Overseas Ministry stated it plans to submit a proper grievance to the UN Safety Council on "Israel's deliberate killing" of Issam Abdallah, a Lebanese nationwide and visuals journalist whose funeral Saturday was attended by a whole bunch …
The Israeli military stated Saturday it was investigating an incident in southern Lebanon in which a Reuters journalist was killed.
The information got here the identical day Lebanon’s Overseas Ministry stated it plans to submit a proper grievance to the UN Safety Council on “Israel’s deliberate killing” of Issam Abdallah, a Lebanese nationwide and visuals journalist whose funeral Saturday was attended by a whole bunch of individuals.
A Reuters witness on the scene has stated he was struck by missiles fired from the route of Israel.
Draped in a Lebanese flag, Abdallah’s physique was carried Saturday on a stretcher by the streets of the southern city of Khiam, from his household’s dwelling to the native cemetery.
Dozens of journalists and Lebanese lawmakers attended the funeral.
The Lebanese military stated in an announcement Saturday that Israeli troops fired a shell the day earlier than hitting a civilian automotive utilized by journalists, killing Abdallah and wounding others. The military stated different areas in south Lebanon on the time had been focused by an Israeli helicopter gunship and artillery, together with the outskirts of the villages of Marwaheen, Kfar Chouba, Aita al-Shaab and Odaisseh.
Israel is investigating the matter. “We’re conscious of the incident with the Reuters journalist,” an Israeli military spokesperson, Lt.-Col. Richard Hecht, informed a daily briefing.
“We are trying into it. We have already got visuals. We’re doing cross-examination. It is a tragic factor.”
Abdallah was with a gaggle of journalists from different organizations, together with Al Jazeera and Agence France-Presse, when he was killed whereas offering a reside video sign for broadcasters.
The group was working close to the village of Alma al-Shaab, near the Israel border, the place the Israeli navy and Hezbollah have been buying and selling fireplace in border clashes.
Featured VideoAn Israeli shell landed amongst a gaggle of worldwide journalists overlaying clashes on the border in south Lebanon Friday afternoon, killing Issam Abdallah, a Reuters videographer and leaving six different journalists injured. Lebanon’s Overseas Ministry is now calling for a UN investigation of the incident.
Maher Nazeh, who was wounded in the identical incident together with his Reuters colleague, Thaer Al-Sudani, stated they had been filming missile fireplace coming from the route of Israel when one struck Abdallah as he was sitting on a low stone wall close to the remainder of the group. Seconds later, one other missile hit the automotive getting used by the group, setting it aflame.
Qatar’s Al-Jazeera TV stated its cameraman, Elie Brakhya and reporter Carmen Joukhadar, had been wounded as effectively. France’s worldwide information company, Agence France-Presse, stated two of its journalists had been additionally wounded. They had been recognized as photographer Christina Assi, and video journalist Dylan Collins.
AFP reported Saturday that Assi was in want of blood transfusions on the American College Medical Middle in Beirut the place she was hospitalized. The Lebanon-Israel border has been witnessing sporadic acts of violence since Saturday’s shock assault by the militant Palestinian group Hamas on southern Israel.
Whereas different information shops, together with the Related Press and Al-Jazeera, stated the shells had been Israeli, Reuters couldn’t set up whether or not the missiles had really been fired by Israel.
The worldwide watchdog group Reporters With out Borders stated Saturday that Abdallah, 37, was the seventh journalist to be killed overlaying the Israel-Hamas conflict in per week, together with six killed within the Israeli bombardment of Gaza that has adopted the lethal Oct. 7 offensive by Hamas.
The group stated that Abdallah and the others with him had been “clearly identifiable” as journalists, in line with a number of sources.
Abdallah had labored for Reuters in Beirut for 16 years and had coated different conflicts, together with the conflict in Ukraine.
Per week earlier than his loss of life, he had posted a tribute to Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist with the Al-Jazeera satellite tv for pc channel who was killed whereas overlaying an Israeli navy raid within the occupied West Financial institution, on his social media accounts.
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