Experts from the HIM They asked this Thursday for a investigation international after the death of three journalists Lebanese in a attack Israeli and they assure that Israel has not provided “credible evidence” about his alleged link with groups armed.
Israel y Hezbollah they face each other in Lebanon since last March 2, when the pro-Iranian movement entered the guerra in Middle East throwing rockets to Israeli territory.
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The tthree journalists, between them Ali Shoaiba correspondent for Hezbollah’s Al-Manar network, died on March 28 in an attack Israeli in the south of the country.
The special rapporteurs, although appointed by the Council of Human Rights of United Nations, They are independent experts and do not speak on behalf of the HIM.
“We strongly denounce what is becoming a common and dangerous practice by Israel of targeting and killing journalists, and then alleging, without providing credible evidence, their links to armed groups,” they said in a statement.
Israel also confirmed having killed Fatima Ftouni, a journalist of Al-Mayadeen, a chain close to Hezbollah, and its brotherthe camera Mohammed Ftouni, calling him a “terrorist from the military branch of Hezbollah.”
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Experts consider that, according to international law humanitarianwork as journalist for a medium linked to an armed group does not constitute direct participation in the hostilities.
At least 259 journalists and media professionals have dead in attacks of Israel from 2023, including 210 Palestinian journalists in Gaza and 14 in Lebanon.
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