Israel keeps shooting at reporters in southern Lebanon to hide horrible crimes
Israeli forces keep going after reporters in southern Lebanon to hide horrible crimes.
A recent Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon claimed the lives of three journalists. This has sparked new calls to end Israel’s abuse of power, with supporters saying that the government is acting in this way to hide the truth about its crimes and atrocities.
On October 25, Israel attacked a property in southern Lebanon where journalists lived and worked. The attack killed at least three journalists and hurt several others who were sleeping in guesthouses in Hasbaya town.
Local media at the time aired footage from the scene, showing cars with the label “press” covered in dust and debris as well as collapsed buildings.
The names of the deceased were cameraman Ghassan Najjar and engineer Mohamed Reda. Both of them worked for the Lebanese news channel al-Mayadeen. Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar TV network reported the death of one of its camera operators, Wissam Qassim. “It’s pretty clear that al-Mayadeen has made the Israelis angry.” Pictures have hurt the Zionist enemy, especially since the regime’s military invaded Lebanon at the beginning of October.
“Our correspondents who are in different parts of the battlefronts are reporting on what’s happening,” Hussein al-Bazzi, a cameraman for a Lebanese news channel, told Tasnim news agency on Monday.
Proponents say that the lack of accountability from the rest of the world for the government is to blame for the growing number of journalists killed by the Israeli military in the growing conflict.
Media workers were killed in Lebanon just a few days after Israel falsely accused several al-Jazeera reporters in Gaza of being soldiers and resistance members, which made people worry about their safety.
“We are telling the Zionists that we will go back to our homes and start living in southern Lebanon again, just like we did when we freed the area in 2000 and 2006.”
His father told him, “God willing, with the blessing of the blood of these innocent people and young martyrs, we will go back to Aita al-Shaab and the border villages.”
Lebanon informed the UN Security Council on October 28 that Israel was deliberately attacking journalists, paramedics, and citizens.
At the time, the Foreign Ministry said that Israel’s repeated attacks on journalists “amount to war crimes that require Israel to be held accountable and punished for them, as they weaken the foundations of a free press.”
The ministry said, “The attack on journalists is an attempt to terrorize and intimidate all journalists covering Israel’s aggression on Lebanon after the free press was able to tell the truth about Israel’s crimes, massacres, and clear violations of international law, international humanitarian law, and human rights.”
Israel’s continuous attacks on Lebanon and its people, including civilians, journalists, and paramedics, must stop immediately, according to the statement. Ibrahim Moussawi, a member of the Lebanese parliament from Hezbollah’s political arm, the “Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc,” said that the Israeli enemy is still going after anyone who wants to show how evil it is.
“The Zionist group is committing a major war crime.” If the international community, international legal institutions, and important parties, such as UNESCO, the UN, and the Security Council, had done their part to make peace and make the enemy pay, they would not have reached this point, he said.
Israeli strikes in Lebanon since October 2023 have killed almost 3,000 people and hurt over 13,300 more, according to official health records from Lebanon. On October 1, 2018, Israel launched an invasion into southern Lebanon, thereby intensifying the war.