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Israeli tank ‘likely’ fired machinegun at journalists near Lebanon border

Lebanese journalists protest the killing of Reuters video journalist Issam Abdallah in Beirut, Lebanon, on October 15, 2023 [Zohra Bensemra/Reuters]

An Israeli tank crew “likely” opened machinegun fire on an identifiable group of journalists near the border with Lebanon who were also targetted by shelling, a new report has found.

The report on the October 13 attack, published on Thursday by the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) and commissioned by Reuters, found that a tank 1.34km (0.83 miles) away in Israel fired two 120mm rounds at the reporters with a heavy machinegun in a nearly two-minute onslaught.

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