Lebanese journalist Issam Abdallah was killed on Friday by Israel after Israeli missiles struck southern Lebanon. In a statement, Reuters said that Issam and two other journalists, Thaer Al-Sudani and Maher Nazeh, had been providing live video coverage from Lebanon’s border with Israel. Reuters said that Al-Sudani and Nazeh had sustained injuries. “We are deeply saddened to learn that our videographer, Issam Abdallah, has been killed,” Reuters said in a statement. “Issam was working as a part of a Reuters crew in southern Lebanon who was providing a live video signal.” Initial reports indicate at least three other journalists were injured in the attack, including Al-Jazeera reporters Carmen Joukhadar and Eli Brakhia. Footage from the scene shows a vehicle engulfed in flames, with other photographs shared on social media platform ‘X’ showing a wounded Carmen laying on the ground. In his last post six days ago on Instagram, Issam had shared a photograph of Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist who was killed in 2022 by Israeli forces while covering an Israeli raid on a refugee camp in the West Bank. Prior to the Israeli strike, Issam had posted a…
Reuters Journalist Issam Abdallah Killed in Israeli Strike on Lebanon
October 13, 2023