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US senator urges probe into 2023 Israeli attack on journalists in Lebanon
Peter Welch has used World Press Freedom Day to renew his call for an investigation into a deadly Israeli attack on a group of journalists reporting in southern Lebanon in October 2023.
Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah was killed in the attack and at least six others, including two Al Jazeera journalists, were wounded. A US journalist with the AFP news agency, Dylan Collins, was among those injured.
In a post on X, Welch said the US government must investigate “this terrible attack on an American journalist”.
Rights groups condemned the deadly incident as a direct attack on civilians that must be investigated as a war crime. “This is an unlawful and apparently deliberate attack on a very visible group of journalists,” Human Rights Watch said at the time.
Dylan Collins is a Vermonter and a journalist who was wounded by Israeli Defense Forces while reporting in Southern Lebanon.
On World Press Freedom Day, I'm continuing to demand that the U.S. government investigate this terrible attack on an American journalist.
— Senator Peter Welch (@SenPeterWelch) May 3, 2025
Saturday would have been Hind Rajab’s seventh birthday
As we reported earlier, the Hind Rajab Foundation says it has identified the Israeli soldiers responsible for killing Hind Rajab, her family members and the medics sent to rescue her.
The foundation, named in the Palestinian girl’s honour, says it chose to release the information on Saturday because it would have been her seventh birthday.
“Today, Hind should have been blowing out candles. Instead, we are naming her killer,” said Dyab Abou Jahjah, the co-founder of the foundation. “This is only the beginning. We are coming for every name, every link in the chain, with the law and with truth,” he added.
Hind was killed alongside several of her relatives after the Israeli military opened fire on their vehicle in Gaza City in early 2024. The young girl had survived the initial attack and had begged for help in a phone call with paramedics. But Israel bombed an ambulance crew trying to rescue her.
Hind Rajab would have turned seven on Saturday
Hind Rajab Foundation, an NGO named after the six-year-old Palestinian angel who lost her life in Gaza in January last year, has claimed to finally identify the IDF commander and his unit responsible for her death. The foundation has approached the International Criminal Court seeking arrest warrants against the commander and others. Rifat Jawaid analyses the development with his sharp commentary.
