A journalist was killed and another injured by Israeli gunfire in a southern Lebanon border area the Lebanese army said early on Friday.
The Lebanese army said that “a media team of seven people was covering the events near the Israeli enemy’s Al-Abbad site in the outskirts of Hula town when Israeli forces opened their machine gun fire at them killing a journalist and injuring another.”
An official for the United Nations peacekeeping troops in the region UNIFIL stated a civilian was killed in an exchange of fire.
&ldquoThe Lebanese Army requested UNIFIL’s help for seven people stranded near the Blue Line during an exchange of fire across the Blue Line&rdquo UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti stated. He said one person lost his life while the others were successfully rescued&rdquo the spokesperson confirmed.
The Lebanese army described the seven people as media personnel saying that Israeli forces targeted them with machine guns killing one and wounding another. It did not provide their identities.
The incident came nearly a week after a Reuters journalist was killed and other journalists injured in an Israeli bombing in southern Lebanon.
