Israeli Occupation Forces Kill Three Journalists in Lebanon
Israeli bombing in Hasbaya, Lebanon. Oct. 25, 2024. X/ @almuariza
October 25, 2024 Hour: 8:36 am
The deceased worked for the TV channels Al-Manar and Al-Mayadeen.
On Friday, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned the Israeli attack that killed journalists and correspondents in southeast Lebanon, saying it represents a continuation of the “war crimes” committed by the Israeli occupation forces.
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“This deliberate aggression indeed aims to terrorize the media to cover up the crimes and destruction being committed,” he pointed out.
“I have given my directives… to add this new crime to the series of files documented with Israeli crimes that will be submitted to the relevant international references so that the international community may stop what is happening,” Mikati added.
Early Friday, three journalists were killed, and three others were injured in an Israeli drone strike that targeted their residence in a hotel on the western edge of the town of Hasbaya.
“Two cameramen and a technician have been killed. They were bombed in Hasbaya, in the residence where they were staying and where there were about twenty journalists from different media. The deceased worked for the TV channels Al-Manar and Al-Mayadeen,” journalist Almudena Ariza reported through social networks.
On Friday, an Israeli airstrike also wounded at least five people, including a Syrian army soldier, at the Joussieh border crossing, used by thousands of people fleeing Lebanon to escape intense Zionist bombardment.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that “three members of the Syrian military intelligence” were killed in this attack, which targeted a checkpoint adjacent to the Immigration and Passport building at the Joussieh crossing in the southwest of the Syrian province of Homs.
Since late September, the Zionist army has been waging intensive attacks on Lebanon in an escalation. Earlier this month, the Israeli army initiated a ground operation in southern Lebanon.
teleSUR/ JF Source: EFE
