The Lebanese press indicated that the attack targeted a hotel in Hasbaya. Lebanon’s Information Minister even considers aggression a “war crime.”
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The Lebanese Information Minister this Friday accused Israel of having deliberately attacked the press in the attack in the south of the country that killed three journalists, denouncing the attack as a “war crime.”
“The Israeli enemy waited for the journalists to take a break during the night to catch them sleeping (…). It was a murder, after surveillance and control, because 18 journalists representing seven media institutions were there. This It’s a war crime“Ziad Makari declared in a message on social network.
انتظر العدو الاسرائيلي اكي يغدر بهم ك مهم، وهم لم يتوقفوا خلال الأشهر الماضية عن طية الخبر في الميدان ونقل ه كشفاً عن جرائمه الموصوفة.
هذا اغتيال، بعد رصد وتعقب، عن سابق تصور وتصميم، إذ كان يتواجد في ال مكان ١٨ صحافياً يمثلون ٧ مؤس سات إعلامية.
هذه…– Ziad T. Makary (@ZiadMakary) October 25, 2024
This morning, an attack by the Israeli army left three journalists dead in southeastern Lebanon, the official Lebanese news agency ANI announced.
The local press indicated that the attack on a hotel in Hasbayawith almost five thousand inhabitants located approximately 50 kilometers south of the capital of Lebanon, Beirut.
On September 23, Israel began an intense campaign of airstrikes against the strongholds of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah and, shortly after, a ground offensive in southern Lebanon.
In a year of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, more than 2,570 people have been killed and at least 12,000 wounded, the vast majority in the last five weeks, according to the latest count by Lebanese health authorities.
The Israeli offensive has left more than 1.2 million people displaced, authorities in Beirut said, and some 334,800 Syrian citizens and another 150,100 Lebanese have fled violence in Lebanon for Syria.
Israel says it wants to remove Hezbollah from the border and end rocket attacks, to allow the return of some 60,000 displaced residents from the north of the territory.
Source: Observadora
