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An Israeli airstrike connected confederate Lebanon connected Saturday (March 28, 2026) killed 3 journalists who were covering the latest Israel-Hezbollah war, their TV stations said.
Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV said that its longtime analogous Ali Shoeib was killed connected Saturday (March 28, 2026) successful confederate Lebanon.
The Israeli subject said that it had targeted Shoeib, accusing him of being a Hezbollah quality operative without providing evidence.
Meanwhile, Beirut-based pan-Arab Al-Mayadeen TV said newsman Fatima Ftouni was killed successful the aforesaid airstrike successful the confederate territory of Jezzine on with her member Mohammed, a video journalist. She had conscionable been connected aerial with a unrecorded study from confederate Lebanon earlier the strike.
Top officials successful Lebanon condemned the strike, with President Joseph Aoun calling it a “flagrant transgression that violates each laws and agreements that support journalists.”
Al-Manar said successful a study that an Israeli airstrike targeted journalists, starring to the “martyrdom of the icon of absorption media." A well-known Lebanese warfare correspondent, Shoeib had covered southbound Lebanon for Al-Manar for astir 3 decades.
The Israeli service claimed that Shoeib was “operating systematically to exposure the locations of [Israeli] soldiers operating successful confederate Lebanon.” The service besides accused him of maintaining interaction with Hezbollah militants and inciting against Israeli troops and civilians, without elaborating.
Al-Manar TV did not respond to the Israeli allegations but described its analogous arsenic “distinguished by his nonrecreational and credible reporting of events.”
Israel’s assertion mirrored past Israeli subject allegations against Palestinian journalists that it targeted successful its warfare connected Hamas the Gaza Strip, accusing them of being Hamas militants posing arsenic reporters.
The Israeli subject did not notation the 2 others who died successful its statement.
Since the past Israel-Hezbollah warfare began connected March 2, Israel’s aerial unit has struck Hezbollah’s civilian targets, including the office of Al-Manar and the group’s Al-Nour vigor station.
Saturday’s (March 28, 2026) onslaught came days aft an Israeli airstrike connected an flat successful cardinal Beirut killed Mohammed Sherri, the caput of governmental programs astatine Al-Manar TV, on with his wife.
The latest deaths bring the fig of journalists and media workers killed this twelvemonth successful Lebanon to five.
The Committee to Protect Journalists said that freelance photojournalist Hussain Hamood, who utilized to collaborate with Al-Manar TV, was besides killed connected Wednesday (March 25, 2026) successful the confederate metropolis of Nabatiyeh.
