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Deliberate assassination of journalists in Lebanon: Israel is a State terrorist

Three journalists were killed in Lebanon by a deliberate targeted Israeli strike on Friday morning, drawing condemnation from rights advocates about the number of reporters who have lost their lives to Israeli state criminality over the past year.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said it "strongly condemned" the attack, urging the international community to "stop Israel's long-standing pattern of impunity in journalist killings."

Israel, per the Zionist manual of deception and lies, has previously denied deliberately attacking journalists. The attack in Hasbayya was in the middle of the night as the journalists were sleeping.  In deliberately killing journalists who might tell the facts as they are, and not as Zionists usually distort them, Israel is violating international humanitarian laws and basic civilized norms, like China and Russia do.

The last year has been the deadliest period for journalists in more than 30 years, CPJ has said, with at least 126 reporters and media workers among nearly 45,000 people killed in Gaza, the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Lebanon.

Friday was the deadliest day for journalists in Lebanon over the last year. At least five other reporters on assignment in Lebanon have been killed by deliberate Israeli assassination strikes. One major such killing was the Zionist sniper bullet strike to the head of American Christian reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, as she was wearing a blue PRESS vest and a helmet and covering an Israeli pogrom against the Jenin Palestinian refugee camp. The sniper struck her in her unprotected face. Israel spent months lying and deceiving, by first saying it was other Palestinians who shot her, then saying she "might" have accidentally been shot by an Israeli soldier, then finally admitting to the murder.

The strike in southern Lebanon last night was around 3 am local time and hit a collection of guesthouses housing only reporters in the southern Lebanese town of Hasbaya, killing two journalists from the Al-Mayadeen television network and one journalist from Al-Manar. The compound is well known to Israeli forces and is clearly marked with large print PRESS indicators.

Muhammad Farhat, a reporter with Lebanese broadcaster Al-Jadeed, was one of at least 18 journalists staying at the guesthouses in Hasbaya.

There was no evacuation order by Israel's military. Farhat told Reuters he had been woken up by the sound of Israeli jets flying low overhead and heard two missiles strike nearby guesthouses before the roof of his guesthouse collapsed on him.

"The scenes were terrifying. We saw our colleagues and friends cut up, their limbs strewn all over, others were screaming and begging us to pull them out," Farhat said later on Al-Jadeed, tears in his eyes.

Sharing a post about the strike on X, the U.N. special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression Irene Khan wrote: "Deliberate killing of a journalist is a war crime."

Mazen Shaqoura, the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for the Middle East, told Al-Jadeed the strike represented "a targeting of what we hear and what we see."