Israel’s attack on the journalists marks the first violation of the ceasefire, a press group said.
Israeli forces fired on two locations in southern Lebanon just hours after a much-vaunted ceasefire agreement began on Wednesday morning, declaring that the southern region is still a military zone.
Lebanon’s news agency reported that Israeli forces opened fire on two journalists in the southern town of Khiam. Both journalists, one working for The Associated Press and the other for Sputnik, were wounded and have been hospitalized for their injuries.
The Syndicate of Lebanese Press Editors head Joseph al-Qassifi confirmed the attack and said that it marked the first violation of the ceasefire agreement.
“We saw people checking on their homes and, at the same time, we were hearing the sounds of tanks withdrawing,” said one of the wounded journalists, Abdelkader Bay, to Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“While we were filming, we realised there were Israeli soldiers in a building and suddenly they shot at us,” Bay said. “It was clear that we were journalists.
