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Oct 25, 2024 12:34 PM - The Associated Press

An Israeli airstrike on a journalist compound kills 3 TV staffers, state news says

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Al-Mayadeen said camera operator Ghassan Najar and broadcast technician Mohammed Rida died.(Photo: The Canadian Press)

AnIsraeli airstrikeon a compound housing journalists in southeast Lebanon has killed three media staffers, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said Friday.

The Beirut-based pan-Arab Al-Mayadeen TV said two of its staffers were among the journalists killed early Friday. Al-Manar TV of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said its camera operator Wissam Qassim was killed in the airstrike on the Hasbaya region, that has been spared much of the fighting along the border so far.

Al-Mayadeen said camera operator Ghassan Najar and broadcast technician Mohammed Rida died.

Several journalists have been killed since exchange of fire began along the Lebanon-Israel border in early October last year.

In November 2023,two journalists for Al-Mayadeen TV were killedin a drone strike. A month earlier, Israeli shelling in southern Lebanonkilled Reuters videographerIssam Abdallah and wounded other journalists from France’s international news agency, Agence France-Presse, and Qatar’s Al-Jazeera TV.

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