The ongoing Israeli air strikes in south Lebanon have killed one journalist and wounded three others including two Al 𝄹Jazeera journalists. An Associated Press photographer at the scene saw the body of the dead journalist and the six who were wounded, some of whom were rushed to hospitals in ambulances.
Qℱatar's Al-Jazeera TV, s🧔aid two of its employees, Elie Brakhya and reporter Carmen Joukhadar, were among the wounded. The Associated Press is not naming the other outlets whose journalists were killed or injured until they make public statements on the matter. The shelling occurred during an exchange of fire along the Lebanon-Israel border between Israeli troops and members of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group.
The Lebanon-Israel border has been witnessing sporadi🌼c acts of violence since Saturday's attack by the militant Palestinian group Hamas on southern Israel. Two Palestinian journalists namely Ibrahim Mohammad Lafi, a photographer for Ain Media, who was at the Gaza Strip’s Erez Crossing into Israel, and Mohammad Jarghoun, a reporter with Smart M💦edia, who was to the east of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip, were shot dead on Saturday.
Journalists fr༒om around the world have been coming to Lebanon out of concern that war might break out between Hezbollah a𝓡nd Israel.
