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Israel should face war crimes probe over journalist death in Lebanon: NGOs

A journalist's car burns at the site where Reuters videojournalist Issam Abdallah was killed and six others injured from an Israeli military strike, in Alma ash-Shaab, southern Lebanon, October 13 [Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters]

International rights groups have said that Israeli strikes that killed a journalist and injured six others in southern Lebanon were likely a direct attack on civilians and must be investigated as a war crime.

Separate investigations by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International determined that Israel’s military shot artillery shells at journalists near the border on October 13, in what appeared to be targeted attacks on civilians.

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