International News Safety Institute

25 October 2024  |  CPJ

Wissam Kassem

Incident

Al-Manar TV camera operator Wissam Kassem killed in Israeli airstrike

Cause of death

Other non-natural

Details

Wissam Kassem, camera operator for Al-Manar TV, was killed at around 3 a.m. on October 25, when an Israeli airstrike hit a compound housing 18 journalists from multiple media outlets in Hasbaya, a town in southern Lebanon. The strike also killed Al-Mayadeen TV’s camera operator Ghassan Najjar and broadcast engineer Mohammed Reda.

The journalists had moved to Hasbaya from Marjayoun, which is further south and had been hit by Israeli strikes.

Lebanon’s information minister Ziad Makary described the attack as a “war crime.”

“This is an assassination, after monitoring and tracking, with prior planning and design, as there were 18 journalists in the place representing seven media institutions,” he said.

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