BEIRUT – An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon killed Tuesday two journalists reporting for the Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV on the violence alongside the border with Israel, in step with the Lebanese information minister and their TV station.
The strike additionally killed a Lebanese civilian, stated the station.
The Pan-Arab Al-Mayadeen TV — politically allied with the Lebanese militant workforce Hezbollah — known the journalists as correspondent Farah Omar and cameraman Rabih Maamari pronouncing they have been “martyred by treacherous Israeli targeting,” including it used to be an airstrike.
“It was direct targeting. It was not a coincidence,” stated Ghassan bin Jiddo, director of the TV channel, protecting again his tears in a are living broadcast. They sign up for “the martyrs of Gaza,” he said
Bin Jiddo said a man from the village, whom he identified as Hussein Akil, was also killed.
Last week, the Israeli government blocked Al-Mayadeen TV news channel from broadcasting in Israel.
Lebanese Information Minister Ziad Makary called the strike on the journalists “outrageous.”
The Israeli military said it was looking into the matter.
Local media reported several Israeli strikes on South Lebanon Tuesday.
Lebanese State-run National News Agency said Israel’s military struck the outskirts of the villages of Teir Harfa and Majdal Zoun in South Lebanon. It also reported that another strike on a home in the border village of Kfar Kila killed a woman, Laiqa Serhan, 80, and wounded her granddaughter who was taken to hospital for treatment.
Israeli shelling on southern Lebanon on Oct. 14, killed Reuters videojournalist Issam Abduallah and wounded different journalists from France’s global news company, Agence France-Presse, and Qatar’s Al-Jazeera TV.
Oct. 7, killing about 1,200 people and taking more than 240 hostages.
Israel has since performed a wide-scale army marketing campaign within the Gaza Strip killing greater than 12,700 folks.