A watchdog group advocating for press freedom has concluded that the strikes on a group of journalists in southern Lebanon were targeted rather than accidental. The group, Reporters Without Borders, published preliminary findings based on video evidence and witness testimonies. The strikes resulted in the death of one journalist and injuries to several others.
A watchdog group advocating for press freedom said that the strikes that hit a group of journalists in southern Lebanon earlier this month, killing one, were targeted rather than accidental and that the journalists were clearly identified as press.
“What we can prove with facts, with evidence for the moment, is that the location where the journalists were standing was explicitly targeted...and they were clearly identifiable as journalists,” the head of RSF’s Middle East desk, Jonathan Dagher, told The Associated Press Monday. “It shows that the killing of Issam Abdallah was not an accident.”
Carmen Joukhadar, an Al Jazeera correspondent who was wounded that day and suffered shrapnel wounds in her arms and legs, told the AP the journalists had positioned themselves some 3 kilometres away from the clashes.
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