Two journalists and two civilians were killed this Tuesday in Israeli attacks in a border region in southern Lebanon, the official Lebanese agency and Al Mayadeen television reported.
According to the National News Agency (ANI), “three citizens, two journalists and another civilian, were killed in an enemy shelling” in the Tayr Harfa region.
An octogenarian woman was also killed and her granddaughter was wounded in an Israeli attack in the village of Kfar Kila, according to the same source, cited by the French agency AFP.
Lebanese pro-Iranian television Al Mayadeen announced that its correspondent Farah Omar and cameraman Rabih Maamari were killed “by an Israeli attack” while covering the ongoing bombing in the south of the country.
The team was “hit deliberately, it was not a coincidence,” said the network’s executive director, Ghassan Ben Jeddo, in statements to television.
The civilian killed with the journalists was also a collaborator of the channel, he stated, without giving more details.
“Al Mayadeen mourns the loss of its martyrs, correspondent Farah Omar and cameraman Rabih Al-Me’mari, who were the target of a cowardly Israeli attack in southern Lebanon,” the broadcaster wrote on its website.
Israel has not yet commented on the attack.
Since the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas on October 7, there have been daily clashes between the Israeli army and the pro-Iranian Lebanese militia Hezbollah.
On October 13, a Reuters journalist, Issam Abdallah, was killed in a similar attack, during which six other journalists – two from AFP, two from Reuters and two from Qatar’s Al-Jazeera channel – were injured.
A month later, an Al-Jazeera cameraman was slightly wounded by Israeli fire while covering bombings in southern Lebanon with other press correspondents.
Cross-border violence has killed at least 92 people in Lebanon since October 7, mostly Hezbollah fighters but also at least 14 civilians, according to an AFP tally.
According to Israeli authorities, nine people were killed on the Israeli side, including six soldiers.
Source: TSF
