Israeli military bombs hotel in southern Lebanon, killing journalists: Reports
The Israeli military has shelled a hotel in the town of Hasbaiyya in southern Lebanon, killing an unknown number of journalists, according to Al Mayadeen and several other news outlets.
Israeli air attack kills 3 journalists in southern Lebanon’s Hasbaiyya
At around 4am, an Israeli – either air strike or drone strike – came into the compound where journalists are being housed in a series of villas. We are hearing that three people have been killed – two cameramen and a technician.
We are not naming the people or the organisations that they work for. But, suffice to say, that these are the people that I have been working with almost every single day. We’ve all been doing our jobs here in Hasbaiyya.
This is a very serious incident. Israel didn’t give any warning. Hasbaiyya is under no evacuation orders and, in fact, it has been relatively calm. So this was, we are thinking, a targeted strike against a particular news organisation. But we will let that news organisation make that conclusion.
But right now, a very serious incident came without warning in a place that is not under Israeli evacuation orders.
Lebanese people and army soldiers inspect a site damaged in an Israeli raid that killed a journalist and wounded several others as they slept in guesthouses used by media
Israeli military targets journalists in Gaza, now it’s ‘coming to southern Lebanon’
The Gaza war is one of the worst wars for journalists, I think, in history. Certainly in modern history.
Al Jazeera’s journalists have been threatened. Israel has said that they are members of Hamas, which is plainly and clearly not true and has been denied by the network and the journalists involved.
And, now, that is coming to southern Lebanon. Al Mayadeen, which is a television channel linked to Hezbollah, its offices were attacked just within the last few days. Israeli media has singled out al-Manar, which is another Hezbollah-affiliated channel, as being part of the “terrorist structure”, as they call it.
But these are guys just doing their jobs like all of the journalists here, and there’s people from various different teams across Lebanese news organisations. I have to say that the only international news organisation here is Al Jazeera English.
Al Mayadeen TV channel confirms cameraman killed in Israeli strike in south Lebanon
Pan-Arab TV channel Al Mayadeen says its cameraman was killed in an Israeli air strike on a residence housing journalists in southern Lebanon’s Hasbaiyya town overnight. Two other journalists were also reported killed in the attack that appears to have targeted the media workers.
The killing comes just two days after Israel carried out an air strike on an office belonging to Al Mayadeen, which is politically allied with Hezbollah and is based in Beirut.
“Al Mayadeen holds the Israeli occupation accountable for the attack on a known media office for a known media outlet,” Al Mayadeen TV said, following the Israeli strike on its office on the outskirts of Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Two Al Mayadeen journalists reporting on military activity along the southern Lebanese border with Israel were killed in an Israeli strike on November 21, 2023.
A protective vest of one of the two journalists from Al Mayadeen who were killed by an Israeli strike near the Lebanese border village of Tayr Harfa in November 2023
