The Syndicate of Editors condemned the Israeli massacre of journalists in Hasbaya: a war crime by all specifications and standards.

The Syndicate of Lebanese News Editors condemned the terrible massacre by Israel in Hasbaya by targeting three media professionals in their residence in an attack: the broadcast engineer and cameraman of Al-Mayadeen TV, and the camera at Al-Manar TV: Muhammad Reda, Ghassan Najjar, and Wissam Qassem, who became martyrs.

The union believed that this is not the first time that Israel has targeted journalists and media professionals in Lebanon, as six of them have previously been killed in its brutal raids, in addition to those who was wounded. What you have done is a war crime by every definition and standard. of international conventions and conventions that determine how to deal with journalists, media professionals, broadcast teams, and relief teams working in the field.

She continued: “The targeted hotel in Hasbaya includes a collection of journalists, media professionals, and photographers who were not spared from the attack, several of whom were injured. It is a civilian headquarters, not a military one, that is prohibited under. international law.”

She believed that “in light of this tragedy, all the words of condemnation, denial and rejection are not enough to express the feelings of anger and rebellion against this ongoing crime that used by the enemy without any accountability,” confirming that he is setting up this terrible Israeli massacre. within the reach of the Human Rights Council, UNESCO, and the International Federation of Journalists, the General Union of Arab Journalists, international and Arab human rights organizations, and media unions in the world, asking them to be criticizing what journalists and media professionals do. open to them in Lebanon, and to raise their voice against the followers of Israel in targeting them, without neglecting all laws, charters, and customs that prohibit them from being exposed.

The union offered condolences to the families of the martyrs and the channels Al-Mayadeen and Al-Manar, asking for mercy for them. They rose to the occasion while documenting the crimes of the enemy and the crimes of their own country, lest those crimes go into oblivion. , thanks to the evidence they recorded that the Day of Judgment will bring, and that it will come.