25 October 2024 | CPJ
Al-Mayadeen camera operator Ghassan Najjar killed in Israeli airstrike
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Ghassan Najjar, a camera operator for Al-Mayadeen 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 broadcast engineer Mohammed Reda and Al-Manar TV’s camera operator Wissam Kassem.
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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