More than a dozen journalists from at least seven media outlets were using a guesthouse in a Hasbaya compound when the attack occurred. There was a courtyard with automobiles that were obviously marked “press.”
The broadcasters TV, where the three men worked, both posted statements in memory of their deceased employees.
The information minister for Lebanon called the attack a “war crime” and said it was intentional.
Although it has denied targeting journalists in the past, the Israeli military has not yet responded.
newsThe -news channel’s engineer Mohamed Reda and camera operator Ghassan Najjar were slain.
Three more people were hurt in the explosion, according to the Lebanese ministry of health.
Issam Abdallah of Reuters was one of five journalists murdered in previous Israeli strikes in Lebanon.
TV, whose reporters were also inside the house, aired footage of a bombed-out building with a collapsed roof and rubble-covered floors.
A TV broadcasting vehicle was overturned, and the nearby cabling smashed the satellite dish.
The fact that this residence was being used as a journalist’s stay-house was communicated to all official parties. In a live broadcast, an Al-Jadeed journalist covered in concrete dust, gasping and panting, stated, “We coordinated with them all.”
