>A Reuters journalist died following an Israeli artillery strike near the Israel-Lebanon border Friday, a horrific incident captured on video.
>The news agency confirmed in a statement that its videographer Issam Abdallah was killed when his crew was struck, a moment seen in a livestream video by Reuters on YouTube. The video has since been taken down.
>Journalists Thaer Al-Sudani and Maher Nazeh also sustained injuries and are seeking medical care, Reuters said in a statement shared with Insider.
>A Reuters spokesperson told Insider in a statement: “We are deeply saddened to learn that our videographer, Issam Abdallah, has been killed. Issam was part of a Reuters crew in southern Lebanon who was providing a live signal. Our thoughts are with their families at this terrible time.”
Saw the video, very disturbing. Not sure what the context here is. The journalists are in a warzone, but the level of risk they undertook to be in that location is unclear. Haven’t seen any statements about where they actually were and if it was in a place that was actually outside of declared targeting.
Tragic. Wouldn’t have happened if Hezbollah stayed out of the conflict.
Tragic and absolutely reckless. The indiscriminate killing of press by Israel is beyond reprehensible no matter how you spin it.
I wonder if this is what the security event the RMA from an hour ago was cancelled for.
Bosses can be assholes, but when yours sends you into a battle zone, you quit.
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Nvm I’m blind its in the first paragraph
1 Reuters journalist killed and 2 Al-Jazeera journalists injured.
Seasoned Al-Jazeera journalist Carmen Joukhadar was injured. Looks like she lost the ability to walk. Clips of the strike on her and the crew online
Carmen used to cover Ukraine-Russia
Still doing the died thing…
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[Video from CombatFootage sub](https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/177134j/reuters_journalists_live_streaming_from/) show they were on a Lebanon-Israeli border and setup a camera at Israeli outpost. While wearing west and helmet. Noone gonna see “PRESS” from that distance. Those outpost on highest alerts and ATGM has been fired not once already. And there’s constant firefights on border. Just really bad circumstances.
Tragic, RIP
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Wait, was this the AMA that was just cancelled
Clearly Hamas had a tunnel underneath that Van.
I think something people are starting to realize is that ‘surgical strikes’ are not really as precise as the military wants you to believe. It is more marketing to make it seem like we can attack the villians without hitting civilians except is some corner cases, but that just isn’t true. Launching rockets at 2M people trapped in 45 km^2 is almost guaranteeing significant civilian deaths. And this incident wasn’t even in Gaza.
That’s so upsetting. It’s almost like the response and actions being taken drastically outweigh the problem that caused them. Obviously this statement excludes any condemnation or justifiable criticism of any particular country.
Edit:
>10 deaths of journalists
This is soooo sad. Prayers for them, their families and colleagues out there.
And I’ll say again… Classic IDF
Israel gets a free pass for collateral deaths because the west views it as the good guys
Its almost like Israel is committing war crimes and the world is just cool with it
So we have 23 jouranlist killed by the IDF so far, so lets see if there any party that will condemn them
So, let’s just make a prediction. Lots and lots of people are going to die, the fighting will quiet down from destruction and exhaustion. Then passive aggressive things will happen until fighting erupts again and more people die. It’s only been going on for what, 4,500 years now?
*Goes into warzone under Israeli bombardment*
*Gets hit by said bombardment*
“Israel is targeting Journalists”
After reading about the intentional attack by Israel on the USS Liberty in international waters, nothing surprises me.
American ship intentionally attacked by Israel in 1966. More than 50 American sailors killed.
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>A Reuters journalist died following an Israeli artillery strike near the Israel-Lebanon border Friday, a horrific incident captured on video.
>The news agency confirmed in a statement that its videographer Issam Abdallah was killed when his crew was struck, a moment seen in a livestream video by Reuters on YouTube. The video has since been taken down.
>Journalists Thaer Al-Sudani and Maher Nazeh also sustained injuries and are seeking medical care, Reuters said in a statement shared with Insider.
>A Reuters spokesperson told Insider in a statement: “We are deeply saddened to learn that our videographer, Issam Abdallah, has been killed. Issam was part of a Reuters crew in southern Lebanon who was providing a live signal. Our thoughts are with their families at this terrible time.”
Saw the video, very disturbing. Not sure what the context here is. The journalists are in a warzone, but the level of risk they undertook to be in that location is unclear. Haven’t seen any statements about where they actually were and if it was in a place that was actually outside of declared targeting.
Tragic. Wouldn’t have happened if Hezbollah stayed out of the conflict.
Tragic and absolutely reckless. The indiscriminate killing of press by Israel is beyond reprehensible no matter how you spin it.
I wonder if this is what the security event the RMA from an hour ago was cancelled for.
Bosses can be assholes, but when yours sends you into a battle zone, you quit.
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Nvm I’m blind its in the first paragraph
1 Reuters journalist killed and 2 Al-Jazeera journalists injured.
Seasoned Al-Jazeera journalist Carmen Joukhadar was injured. Looks like she lost the ability to walk. Clips of the strike on her and the crew online
Carmen used to cover Ukraine-Russia
Still doing the died thing…
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[Video from CombatFootage sub](https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/177134j/reuters_journalists_live_streaming_from/) show they were on a Lebanon-Israeli border and setup a camera at Israeli outpost. While wearing west and helmet. Noone gonna see “PRESS” from that distance. Those outpost on highest alerts and ATGM has been fired not once already. And there’s constant firefights on border. Just really bad circumstances.
Tragic, RIP
[removed]
Wait, was this the AMA that was just cancelled
Clearly Hamas had a tunnel underneath that Van.
I think something people are starting to realize is that ‘surgical strikes’ are not really as precise as the military wants you to believe. It is more marketing to make it seem like we can attack the villians without hitting civilians except is some corner cases, but that just isn’t true. Launching rockets at 2M people trapped in 45 km^2 is almost guaranteeing significant civilian deaths. And this incident wasn’t even in Gaza.
That’s so upsetting. It’s almost like the response and actions being taken drastically outweigh the problem that caused them. Obviously this statement excludes any condemnation or justifiable criticism of any particular country.
Edit:
>10 deaths of journalists
This is soooo sad. Prayers for them, their families and colleagues out there.
And I’ll say again… Classic IDF
Israel gets a free pass for collateral deaths because the west views it as the good guys
Its almost like Israel is committing war crimes and the world is just cool with it
So we have 23 jouranlist killed by the IDF so far, so lets see if there any party that will condemn them
So, let’s just make a prediction. Lots and lots of people are going to die, the fighting will quiet down from destruction and exhaustion. Then passive aggressive things will happen until fighting erupts again and more people die. It’s only been going on for what, 4,500 years now?
*Goes into warzone under Israeli bombardment*
*Gets hit by said bombardment*
“Israel is targeting Journalists”
After reading about the intentional attack by Israel on the USS Liberty in international waters, nothing surprises me.
American ship intentionally attacked by Israel in 1966. More than 50 American sailors killed.