Hezbollah denounced on Friday the Israeli attack on a journalist team at the border with occupied Palestinian territories, vowing retaliation to the killing of a civilian who was trapped along with the media crew.
In a statement, Hezbollah’s Media Relations Office stressed that the Israeli attack on civilians and journalists is part of a series of Israeli crimes against media teams in a bid to prevent journalists from documenting the Israeli brutality.
“Israeli enemy goes ahead with its criminal policy to attack civilians and journalists at the border area between Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territories,” Hezbollah’s statement, obtained by Al-Manar read.
“Hezbollah’s Media Relations Office strongly denounces the new crime committed by occupation forces near Al-Abbad post, which led to the martyrdom of a civilian. The aggression is a part of series of crimes against media crews in Lebanon and Palestine in a bid to prevent them from covering and documenting the brutal crimes against civilians and innocent people.”
The resistance party’s media office, meanwhile, called on media outlets as well as humanitarian groups and bodies to condemn these crimes.
“We reiterate that the killing of civilians and attacking our country won’t go unanswered.”
Earlier on Thursday, a team of six journalists and a civilian were trapped outside the border town of Hula and near the Israeli site of Al-Abbad. The seven came under Israeli fire that killed one of them and injured another, before being evacuated by the Lebanese Army.
Al-Manar correspondent in south Lebanon, Ali Shoeib, said the martyred civilian, Mohamamd Al-Bikai, was initially injured and that he bled to death after Israeli occupation forces prevented UNIFIL troops from evacuating him.
الشهيد محمد البقاعي كان جريحاً برصاص موقع العباد الذي صودف وجوده برفقة الفريق الصحفي بجواره أثناء استهداف الموقع و بقي لمدة 3 ساعات وهو جريح ينزف و منعت قوات العدو سحبه من قبل قوات اليونيفيل الدولية المتواجدة في موقعها الذي يبعد امتاراً عنه إلى أن فارق الحياة قبل ربع ساعة من… pic.twitter.com/xUAcOJYEqq
— علي شعيب || Ali Shoeib 🇱🇧 (@alishoeib1970) October 20, 2023
Source: Al-Manar English Website
