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• Al Jazeera - Israeli strike in southern Lebanon kills journalist, wounds several others Wayback Archive

At least one journalist has been killed and six others wounded in a shelling attack by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, according to witnesses and reporters at the scene

The Reuters news agency confirmed on Friday that Issam Abdallah, a videographer, was killed in the attack.

• The Hill - Reuters journalist killed during shelling in Lebanon

A journalist working for Reuters was killed during fighting in Lebanon, the outlet confirmed Thursday.“We are deeply saddened to learn that our videographer, Issam Abdallah, has been killed,” a spokesperson for Reuters said in a statement. Issam was part of a Reuters crew in southern Lebanon that was providing a live signal and images from the ground.

Al Jazeera said some of its reporters were also part of the group of journalists that was hit by what is called a “shelling attack by Israeli forces.” Reuters said as of Thursday afternoon, it is “urgently seeking more information, working with authorities in the region, and supporting Issam’s family and colleagues.” Reuters journalists Thaer Al-Sudani and Maher Nazeh also sustained injuries as part of the incident that killed Issam and are seeking medical care, the outlet said.

“Our thoughts are with their families at this terrible time,” the company said.

Al Jazeera said videographer Elie Brakhya and reporter Carmen Joukhadar were also among the wounded.

• Buisness Insider - A Reuters journalist died after his crew was struck by Israeli artillery - Wayback Archive

Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah died in an artillery strike near the Israel-Lebanon border.

The news agency told Insider that two other journalists were injured in the attack on Friday.

The crew were struck while filming a livestream video for Reuters, which has since been removed

CW video from journalists perspective videoing outside when their car war shelled by a tank. You can hear a woman in English "I can't feel my legs! What happened I can't feel my legs!"

Evidence

Main tweet - https://nitter.net/alihashem_tv/status/1712856419664281860

Video - https://nitter.net/GrantSmithEllis/status/1712861302748520690#m

Reports have claimed it was on Reuters live feed but has since been taken down due to graphic content.

[Someone please back these vids up]

Edit CW GRAPHIC - Video of the attack is up on Al Jazeera's YT

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has collected testimonies from 55 Palestinians, including 21 from the Gaza Strip, who had been held in Israeli prisons, detailing the torture they were subjected to.

The B’Tselem report, titled Welcome to Hell, revealed on Tuesday that more than a dozen Israeli prison facilities have been converted into a network of camps “dedicated to the abuse of inmates” since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza.

Such spaces, in which every inmate is intentionally condemned to severe, relentless pain and suffering, operate in fact as torture camps,” it said.

The violations include “frequent acts of severe, arbitrary violence; sexual assault; humiliation and degradation; deliberate starvation; forced unhygienic conditions; sleep deprivation; prohibition on, and punitive measures for, religious worship; confiscation of all communal and personal belongings; and denial of adequate medical treatment”.

B’Tselem said at least 60 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since October 7, including about 48 people from Gaza.

The report said that detainee testimonies demonstrate “a systemic, institutional policy focused on the continual abuse and torture of all Palestinian prisoners”.

This policy, it said, is implemented under the direction of Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, with the full support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

ternational law are being violated, and the fact that these violations are directed at the entire population of Palestinian prisoners daily and over time – the only possible conclusion is that in carrying out these acts, Israel is committing torture that amounts to a war crime and even a crime against humanity,” the report said in its conclusion.

Call for ICC probe

It called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate “individuals suspected of planning, directing and committing these crimes”, saying the probe was not possible inside Israel “since all state systems, including the judiciary, have been mobilized in support of these torture camps”.

B’Tselem also noted that the number of Palestinians held in Israeli jails has doubled to 9,623 since the war on Gaza began.

“We appeal to all nations and to all international institutions and bodies to do everything in their power to put an immediate end to the cruelties meted out on Palestinians by Israel’s prison system, and to recognize the Israeli regime operating this system as an apartheid regime that must come to an end,” the group concluded.

There was no immediate reaction to the report from the Israeli authorities.