Three journalists and ten soldiers have been killed as violence intensifies in southern Lebanon, according to officials.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health confirmed the deaths of three journalists, with three others injured in a strike on their accommodation in Hasbaya.
The Lebanese Minister of Information, Ziad Makary, stated on his X account on Friday that the killings were an “assassination”.
He said, “The Israeli enemy waited for the journalists to rest at night in order to betray them in their sleep, and during the past months they did not stop covering the news in the field and transmitting it to reveal its described crimes.
“This was an assassination, after monitoring and tracking, with a premeditated design, as 18 journalists representing 7 media organizations were present at the scene.
“This is a war crime.
“Mercy to the martyrs Ghassan Najjar, Muhammad Reda, and Wissam Qassem, and condolences to their families, and to their institutions, specifically Al-Mayadeen and Al-Manar TV channels.”
The IDF confirmed the deaths of ten soldiers engaged in fighting in Lebanon, clarifying that these soldiers were not killed in the past 24 hours but that their deaths had been confirmed after notifying their families.
