The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has strongly condemned Israel following reports of the killing of three journalists in southern Lebanon. The CPJ, an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting press freedom and defending the rights of journalists worldwide, called for urgent international intervention in response to the incident.
The CPJ highlighted what it described as Israel's long-standing pattern of impunity in cases involving the deaths of journalists. The Lebanese state-run National News Agency reported that three journalists were killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon. Two of the journalists were reported to be working for Lebanon-based TV channel Al Mayadeen, while the third was a journalist for the Hezbollah-affiliated Al Manar TV.
