{"id":118395,"date":"2024-10-26T01:01:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T18:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118395"},"modified":"2024-10-26T01:01:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T18:01:13","slug":"an-israeli-airstrike-killed-journalists-covering-the-war-in-lebanon-as-they-slept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118395","title":{"rendered":"An Israeli airstrike killed journalists covering the war in Lebanon as they slept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BEIRUT (AP) \u2014 An Israeli airstrike killed three journalists as they slept at a guesthouse in southeast Lebanon at dawn Friday, in one of the deadliest attacks on the media since hostilities broke out across the border a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>It was a rare airstrike on an area that had so far been spared airstrikes and has been used by the media as a base for covering the war. <\/p>\n<p>The 3 a.m. airstrike turned the site \u2014 a series of chalets nestled among trees that had been rented by various media outlets covering the war \u2014 into rubble, with cars marked \u201cPRESS\u201d overturned and covered in dust and debris and at least one satellite dish for live broadcasting totally destroyed. The Israeli army did not issue a warning prior to the strike, and later said it was looking into it.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Farhat, a reporter for Lebanon\u2019s Al Jadeed TV in the south, said everyone rushed out in their sleeping clothes. \u201cThe first question we asked each other: \u2018Are you alive?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those killed were camera operator Ghassan Najjar and broadcast technician Mohammed Rida of the Beirut-based pan-Arab Al-Mayadeen TV, and camera operator Wissam Qassim, who worked for Al-Manar TV of Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah group. It came after a strike earlier in the week that hit an office belonging to Al-Mayadeen on the outskirts of Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs. Both outlets are aligned with Hezbollah and its main backer, Iran. <\/p>\n<p>The airstrike early Friday was the latest in a series of Israeli attacks against journalists covering the war in <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/middle-east\">Gaza and Lebanon<\/a><\/span> in the past year. Israel has not commented on what its target was in the Friday attack. But human rights groups say deliberately targeting journalists is a war crime. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJournalists are civilians that are entitled to protection under international humanitarian law,\u201d said Aya Majzoub, Amnesty International\u2019s deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa. \u201cIt has been especially disturbing to see Israel target civilian institutions just because of their affiliation to Hezbollah.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Committee to Protect Journalists said it was appalled by the killing of the three journalists and called for an independent investigation into why their accommodation was targeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCPJ is deeply outraged by yet another deadly Israeli airstrike on journalists, this time hitting a compound hosting 18 members of the press in south Lebanon,\u201d said the organization\u2019s program director, Carlos Martinez de la Serna. <\/p>\n<p>The strike in the Hasbaya region drew immediate condemnation from officials, journalists and press advocacy groups. TV crews had arrived in Hasbaya, deeming it safer after Israel had ordered an evacuation order for a town further south from which they were reporting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is why we consider it a direct targeting, aimed at getting the journalists out of the south,\u201d said Elsy Moufarrej, coordinator for the Alternative Press Syndicate in Lebanon. \u201cThey want to prevent the journalists from covering and having presence in the south of Lebanon.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Lebanese Information Minister Ziad Makary said the journalists were killed while reporting on what he called Israel\u2019s \u201ccrimes,\u201d and noted they were among a large group of members of the media. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an assassination, after monitoring and tracking, with premeditation and planning, as there were 18 journalists present at the location representing seven media institutions,\u201d he wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n<h2>Struck in their sleep<\/h2>\n<p>Imran Khan, a senior correspondent for Al Jazeera English who was among the journalists in the Hasbaya Village Club guesthouses, said the airstrike hit at around 3:30 a.m. without warning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese were just journalists that were sleeping in bed after long days of covering the conflict,\u201d he posted on social media, adding that he and his team were unhurt.<\/p>\n<p>Hussein Hoteit, a cameraman for Egypt\u2019s Al-Qahira TV, said he was sleeping when he woke up to a \u201chuge weight\u201d as the walls and ceiling collapsed. He was miraculously saved by colleagues who managed to move the debris covering him a few minutes later. Their team\u2019s house was closest to the one housing Al-Mayadeen.<\/p>\n<p>He said two missiles hit the chalet next door, although he didn\u2019t hear them. He spoke from his hospital bed where he is being treated for thigh injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the 18 journalists staying at the guesthouse, including an Egyptian national, were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Yumna Fawaz, a journalist with the Lebanese MTV station, said she was woken up by the roof falling over her head. She suffered a minor injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis targeting destroyed the whole compound. All the chalets were destroyed and the roofs fell over our heads,\u201d Fawaz told The Associated Press. \u201cThis was the safe space. It had not been targeted before.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>An unprecedented toll<\/h2>\n<p>Friday\u2019s deaths are the latest in a long <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/un-freedom-expression-attacks-journalists-palestinians-israel-4ee19abb793df9b9fcce4364df7f2efe\">list of journalists<\/a><\/span> who have been killed in Israeli attacks in the past year in Gaza and Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>In a report earlier this month, CPJ said at least 128 journalists and media workers, all but five of them Palestinian, had been killed in Gaza and Lebanon \u2014 more journalists than have died in any year since it started documenting journalist killings in 1992. All of the killings except two were carried out by Israeli forces, it said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne year in, Israel\u2019s conduct of the war in Gaza has exacted an unprecedented and horrific toll on Palestinian journalists and the region\u2019s media landscape,\u201d it said. CPJ said it has determined that at least five of the journalists, including one in Lebanon last year, were directly targeted by Israeli forces. The group is investigating other cases and unconfirmed reports of other journalists being killed, missing, detained, hurt or threatened. <\/p>\n<p>The <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/aljazeera-journalists-killed-gaza-war-israel-d22cd40578c0c88d75d85d8cb9601130\">killing of journalists<\/a><\/span> has prompted an international outcry from press advocacy groups and United Nations experts, although Israel has said it does not deliberately target them. <\/p>\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s Health Minister says over the past year 11 journalists have been killed and eight wounded by Israeli fire in Lebanon. <\/p>\n<p>In November 2023, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lebanon-israel-almayadeen-journalists-killed-farah-omar-a0c4f1bc13582231117c98d54c477b2b\">two journalists for Al-Mayadeen TV were killed<\/a><\/span> in a drone strike at their reporting spot. A month earlier, Israeli shelling in southern Lebanon <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lebanon-journalists-israel-afp-reuters-issam-abdallah-d07fc338e98934135d85734d71c4ec49\">killed Reuters videographer<\/a><\/span> Issam Abdallah and seriously wounded other journalists from France\u2019s international news agency, Agence France-Presse, and Qatar\u2019s Al-Jazeera TV on a hilltop not far from the Israeli border. <\/p>\n<p>This week, Israel <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/al-jazeera-journalists-hamas-islamic-jihad-israel-983215f9904bffa7f3d5518235e19e86\">accused journalists working for Al Jazeera<\/a><\/span> of being members of militant groups, citing documents it purportedly found in Gaza. The network has denied the claims as \u201ca blatant attempt to silence the few remaining journalists in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CPJ has dismissed them as well, and said that \u201cIsrael has repeatedly made similar unproven claims without producing credible evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jad Shahrour, spokesperson for the Samir Kassir Eyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom, told AP Friday that bombing press centers is a deliberate effort to obliterate the truth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means they are establishing a media blackout,\u201d he said, adding that it was a troubling trend that is now shifting from Gaza to Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Mayadeen\u2019s director, Ghassan bin Jiddo, alleged that the Israeli strike Friday was intentional and directed at those covering elements of its military offensive.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Shoeib, Al-Manar\u2019s correspondent in south Lebanon, said the camera operator who had been working with him for months was killed in the attack. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were reporting the news and showing the suffering of the victims and now we are the news and the victims of Israel\u2019s crimes,\u201d Shoeib said in a video aired on Al-Manar TV.<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Karam reported from London. 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