Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill reporters, senior Hamas official

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill reporters, senior Hamas official

Reuters
November 21, 2023 3:48 PM EST Updated an hour ago

BEIRUT, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Separate Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed eight people, including two journalists working for a Lebanese TV channel and a senior Hamas official, according to Lebanese state media and official sources.

The deaths bring those killed in Lebanon since the beginning of hostilities along the border to more than 80 people, mostly fighters from the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.

Violence along the border broke out after Hamas's Oct. 7 attack. Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah - a Hamas ally - have exchanged rocket fire in fighting that has steadily escalated.

Lebanese broadcaster Al Mayadeen said an Israeli strike on Tuesday near the town of Tir Harfa, about a mile from the Israeli frontier, had killed two of its journalists and a third person at the site where they were filming.

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[claudette]

1. Dear Lord

They have gone mad under Nuttyahoo .

[patphil]

2. Are they trying to bring Hezbollah into the fight?

So far, the other Arab terrorist groups haven't committed. I don't think it's because they fear Israel, or because they want to support Hamas. Quite the contrary, I get the feeling they don't like Hamas, or what they did.
If they are sitting on the fence, best to let them sit.

[LauraInLA]

3. But Hezbollah is firing rockets into Israel daily. Should Israel not return fire?

[patphil]

7. You are correct, my mistake.

Israel and Hezbollah have been engaged in sporadic fire back and forth across the border. It hasn't got much news coverage.

[revmclaren]

4. Why are any journalists embedding with Hamas

or any other terrorist organization. Especially ones firing missiles at Israel.

I believe strongly that this is the reason that journalists are dying in such numbers in Gaza. Although many, even here on DU, are saying that they are being intentionally targeted by Israel.

Such a waste of life to get a story for the Palestinian authority to use for propaganda.

This is of course IMHO.

[Eugene]

5. There were multiple strikes. Israel states it will not guarantee the safety of journalists in a combat zone.

Nothing in the article says they were embedded.
The journalists were pro-Palestinian, and survivors
say they were targeted as journalists, which would
still be a war crime.

[revmclaren]

6. No journalists are safe in a war zone.

Never have been.

No country has ever guaranteed the safety of the press in battle. Those journalists who put themselves in harm's way know the risk.

And if they imbed themselves in an area that is attacking another country...and is in a location with a Hamas leader, who was killed in the attack, then all bets are off

And many posters here on DU keep throwing out the 'it's a war crime' so many times in posts and threads that many readers just dont take those statements seriously any more. Those who do this really need to bone up on the definition.