- An Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on Saturday killed three journalists who were covering the ongoing Israel-Hezbollah conflict.
- The deceased include Ali Shoeib, a long-time correspondent for Hezbollah's al-Manar TV, and Fatima Ftouni, a reporter for Al-Mayadeen TV, along with her brother Mohammed, a video journalist.
- Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned the strike, labelling it a 'flagrant crime that violates all laws and agreements that protect journalists'.
- The Israeli military claimed Ali Shoeib was a Hezbollah intelligence operative, accusing him of exposing Israeli troop locations, but did not provide evidence for this assertion.
- These deaths bring the total number of journalists and media workers killed in Lebanon this year to five, following other recent Israeli strikes that have targeted media personnel.
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