The Reuters news agency has confirmed that its videographer Issam Abdallah has died, and several others wounded in today’s shelling attack by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, according to witnesses and reporters at the scene.
“We are urgently seeking more information, working with authorities in the region, and supporting Issam’s family and colleagues,” Reuters said in a statement.
Al Jazeera said that cameraperson Elie Brakhya and reporter Carmen Joukhadar were among those wounded.
“The tank shell hit them directly. It was horrible. The situation over there was, I can’t explain, I can’t describe it,” Al Jazeera correspondent Ali Hashem reported from Alma ash-Shaab, who said a team of reporters had been clearly marked as press.
AT LEAST SIX JOURNALISTS KILLED IN GAZA, IN ONE WEEK. According to press freedom groups and media networks, at least six journalists have been killed in Gaza since Israel began pounding the besieged territory on Saturday after Hamas, the Palestinian group which governs the territory, launched a deadly attack on southern Israel.
Saeed al-Taweel, Mohammed Subh and Hisham Alnwajha were killed in an air raid on Tuesday. Ibrahim Mohammad Lafi and Mohammad Jarghoun, were shot dead while reporting on Saturday, according to the Palestinian press freedom group MADA and the Journalist Support Committee (JSC), a non-profit.
Mohammad el-Salhi was shot dead on the border to the east of Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported on Saturday.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: The international community should act to prevent a calamity. https://x.com/hrw/status/1712867842540945526?s=20
HAMAS: We adamantly reject to be expelled from our homes once again.
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