Israeli airstrike kills 3 TV staffers in journalist compound in Lebanon
UNB
Publish: 25 Oct 2024, 05:16 PM
BEIRUT,
Oct 25(AP/UNB) - An Israeli airstrike on a compound housing journalists in
southeast Lebanon has killed three media staffers, Lebanon's state-run National
News Agency said Friday.
The Beirut-based
pan-Arab Al-Mayadeen TV said two of its staffers were among the journalists
killed early Friday. Al-Manar TV of Lebanon's Hezbollah group said its camera
operator Wissam Qassim was killed in the airstrike on the Hasbaya region, that
has been spared much of the fighting along the border so far.
Al-Mayadeen said camera
operator Ghassan Najar and broadcast technician Mohammed Rida died.
Local news station Al
Jadeed aired footage from the scene - a collection of chalets that had been
rented by various media outlets - showing collapsed buildings and cars marked
PRESS covered in dust and rubble. The Israeli army did not issue a warning
prior to the strike.
Earlier in the week, a
strike hit an office belonging to Al-Mayadeen on the outskirts of Beirut's
southern suburbs, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry.
Several journalists have
been killed since near-daily exchange of fire began along the Lebanon-Israel
border on Oct. 8, 2023.
In November 2023, two
journalists for Al-Mayadeen TV were killed in a drone strike. A month earlier,
Israeli shelling in southern Lebanon killed Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah
and wounded other journalists from France's international news agency, Agence
France-Presse, and Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV.
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