The UN newsletter declared on Friday that Israeli attack on southern Lebanon, October 13, 2023, which was killed by a journalist Reuters and others were injured, was a war crime. TASR reports according to AFP.
- The UN newsletter described the Israeli attack as a war crime.
- Journalist Reuters died in the attack and others were injured.
- The Israeli army denied the intentional focus on reporters.
- The investigation showed the use of the tank grenade of the Israeli army.
- The attack threatens a fragile ceasefire, the UN says.
It was a “anticipated, targeted and double attack of Israeli forces, which in my opinion is a clear violation of international humanitarian law, war crime”, He said a special UN rapporteur for extrajudicial, mass or arbitrary executions of Morris Tidball-Binz at a press conference in Beirut.
In the attack, the journalist Reuters Issam Abdallah died and six others were injured, including Dylan Collins of AFP and Christina Assi, whose amputated the right leg. The Israeli army denied that it would focus on reporters.
AFP investigation together with Airwars NGO, which investigates attacks on civilians in conflict situations, pointed to a 120mm tank grenade used only by the Israeli army.
Morris Tidball-Binz noted that Three other journalists were killed in the attack in October 2024 when they slept “in a clearly marked journalist residence… which could not remain unnoticed by the Israeli defensive forces that fired this place with bombs ”.
Israeli army said the attack focused on Hezbollah militants and that the attack “re -evaluated”. According to the Lebanese authorities, more than 4,000 people were killed since October 2023 and the UN announced last week that The death of 103 civilians confirmed since the latest ceasefire in November.
Tidball-Binz said “In addition to violating international humanitarian law and international law in the field of human rights that represent these attacks, they also threaten … a very fragile ceasefire”.
