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KHIAM – Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah who was once killed in Israeli shelling of southern Lebanon, was once laid to rest in his native land Saturday in a funeral procession attended by masses of other people.
Draped in a Lebanese flag, Abdallah’s frame was once carried on a stretcher in the course of the streets of his southern the town of Khiam, from his circle of relatives’s house to the native cemetery.
Dozens of newshounds and Lebanese lawmakers attended the funeral.
Abdallah was once killed Friday night close to the village of Alma al-Shaab in south Lebanon when an Israeli shell landed on a meeting of world newshounds masking trade of fireside alongside the border between Israeli troops and participants of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah crew.
Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry requested Beirut’s challenge to the United Nations to record a criticism towards Israel over Friday’s shelling calling it a “flagrant violation and a crime against freedom of opinion and press.” The observation was once carried by the state-run National News Agency.
Israeli army spokesperson Lt. Col. Richard Hecht informed the Associated Press in Jerusalem Saturday: “We are aware of the incident with the Reuters journalist and we are looking into it.”
Hecht didn’t verify that the newshounds have been hit by Israeli shells, however referred to as the incident “tragic,” including, “we’re very sorry for his death.”
Reuters stated in a observation that two of its newshounds, Thaer Al-Sudani and Maher Nazeh, had been wounded in the similar shelling whilst Qatar’s Al-Jazeera TV, stated its cameraman Elie Brakhya and reporter Carmen Joukhadar, were given wounded as smartly.
France’s world news company, Agence France-Presse, stated two of its newshounds had been additionally wounded: photographer Christina Assi, and video journalist Dylan Collins.
AFP reported Saturday that photographer Christina Assi was once in want of blood donations on the American University Medical Center in Beirut the place she was once hospitalized.
The Lebanon-Israel border has been witnessing sporadic acts of violence since Saturday’s surprise attack by the militant Palestinian crew Hamas on southern Israel.
Journalists from quite a lot of international locations were flocking to Lebanon to track the placement as tensions were escalating between Hezbollah and Israel.
