Two journalists and a media worker were killed and at least three others injured in an Israeli airstrike that hit a compound housing 18 journalists from multiple media outlets in south Lebanon’s Hasbaya area, an attack that Lebanon’s information minister Ziad Makary called a “war crime.”
Pro-Hezbollah Al Mayadeen TV’s camera operator Ghassan Najjar, broadcast engineer Mohammed Reda, and Hezbollah-owned Al-Manar TV’s camera operator Wissam Kassem were reported killed.
The three injured were reported to be camera operator Hassan Hoteit and assistant camera operator Zakaria Fadel of the media production company Isol and Al Jazeera camera operator Ali Mortada.
“Deliberately targeting journalists is a war crime under international law. This attack must be independently investigated and the perpetrators must be held to account, ” CPJ Program Director Carlos Martinez de la Serna in New York.
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When Moroccan authorities released three prominent journalists in July as part of a mass pardon marking King Mohamed VI’s 25 years on the throne, their friends and families celebrated. But the excitement was short-lived. Taoufik Bouachrine, Soulaiman Raissouni, and Omar Radi have been shamed in the media, stalked, and harassed since their release.
In a new feature, CPJ looks at the ongoing threats facing three icons of the fight for media freedom in Morocco. The three journalists have been effectively silenced in their journalism as they don’t yet know if they are legally allowed to return to work and they fear continued persecution.
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