Al-Manar and al-Mayadeen reporters killed in Israeli strike in south
Three Lebanese journalists were killed on Saturday by an Israeli strike that targeted their vehicle in southern Lebanon, a military source told AFP.
Veteran reporter Ali Shouaib of Hezbollah's channel Al-Manar and Fatima Ftouni of Al-Mayadeen, seen as close to Iran, were killed near Jezzine, alongside Ftouni's brother, a cameraman, the source said.
Al-Mayadeen and Al-Manar confirmed the deaths of their journalists.
The Israeli army later confirmed that Shouaib was the target of the strike, claiming that he was a member of Hezbollah's elite Radwan unit who disguised as a journalist and worked on exposing the positions of the Israeli army in south Lebanon and inciting against the "State of Israel."
Shouaib was well-known war correspondent in the country where he had covered south Lebanon for Al-Manar for nearly three decades.
Ftouni had made a live report from southern Lebanon just before the strike in Jezzine region.
The strike came days after an Israeli airstrike on an apartment in central Beirut killed Mohammed Sherri, the head of political programs at Al-Manar TV, along with his wife.
Source: Agence France Presse, Naharnet, Associated Press
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