Israel’s Pattern of Killing Journalists Under Scrutiny
An Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on Saturday resulted in the deaths of three journalists covering the ongoing conflict. Among those killed was Ali Shoeib, a longtime correspondent for Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV, whom the Israeli military accused of being a Hezbollah intelligence operative. Al-Mayadeen TV reported that its reporter Fatima Ftouni and her brother, video journalist Mohammed, were also killed in the same strike. These fatalities bring the total number of journalists and media workers killed in Lebanon this year to five.
John Q. Hosedrinker