Three journalists have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, a media report said on Sunday.
The strike targeted a vehicle carrying reporters in southern Lebanon on Saturday, Reuters reported.
Lebanese television channel Al-Manar said its reporter Ali Shaib and Fatima Ftouni, a journalist with pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Mayadeen, were killed when their vehicle was hit.
Lebanon’s information minister, Paul Morcos, later said Ftouni’s brother, Mohammed, a cameraman, had also been killed.
The Israeli military confirmed the strike on Ali Shaib but did not comment on the deaths of the two other journalists.
Meanwhile, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun described the journalists as “civilians carrying out their professional duties.”
“It is a brazen crime that violates all treaties and norms under which journalists enjoy international protection in war,” he said in a statement on X.
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