Israel-Palestine war spreads, Lebanese military says Israeli troops killed members of press corps
(AFP Beirut Comprehensive Foreign News Report on the 20th) As the war between Israel and Gaza militants rages on, the Lebanese military today accused Israel of killing a member of the “press corps” who was reporting on tensions along the Israel-Lebanon border.
Agence France-Presse reported that the Lebanese military said in a statement that yesterday, “a group of seven journalists… were reporting news near the Israeli enemy al-Abad position outside the town of Hula. , was attacked by machine guns from (Israeli) enemy forces, resulting in one death and another injured.”
Peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) issued a statement earlier saying that civilians in southern Lebanon were affected by cross-border artillery fire, and one person was killed.
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon said in a statement that seven people were trapped near the border during fierce cross-border fighting, and the Lebanese Armed Forces requested assistance from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. A spokesman for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon confirmed that they were all civilians.
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon said: “Unfortunately, one person lost his life in this incident, and the others were successfully rescued.” According to the statement, they asked the Israeli forces to temporarily cease fire “to facilitate rescue operations” and the Israeli army to cooperate.
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon acts as a buffer between Lebanese and Israeli forces.
Since the Palestinian Islamist group “Hamas” went on a killing spree in southern Israel on the 7th, killing at least 1,400 people, most of them civilians, it was backed by the Lebanese Hezbollah (Hezbollah) and allied Palestinian factions backed by Iran. Cross-border fighting with Israel breaks out daily.
According to data from the Ministry of Health in Gaza under Hamas, Israel launched retaliatory bombing operations across the Gaza corridor, killing more than 3,700 Palestinians, mainly civilians. (Translator: Zhang Xiaowen/Verification: Yan Siqi)
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2023-10-20 06:47:40
