An Israeli army tank killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six other journalists in Lebanon while they were filming cross-border shelling on Oct. 13, a Reuters investigation has found.
  • Chaotic Entropy
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    7 months ago

    Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hecht, the IDF’s international spokesman, said: “We don’t target journalists.” He did not provide further comment.

    … because they classify them as enemy combatants/sympathisers whilst capturing footage of Israel’s actions.

    • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Throughout this conflict, and after having watched very closely the war in Ukraine the past 2 years… The rhetoric coming out of Israel matches very closely with the same sort of propaganda and denialism Russia uses.