Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and news organizations including Reuters and AFP released separate investigations into the deadly Israeli attack on a group of journalists in southern Lebanon on October 13. The attack killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six others. The investigations point to Israeli tank fire as the cause, with evidence suggesting deliberate targeting of journalists. The Israeli military is under pressure to conduct a thorough investigation, with calls for the incident to be treated as a war crime.
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Yesterday SecBlinken said the IDF tank fire that killed a Reuters reporter & injured an AFP journalist should be "fully & thoroughly investigated." asked if the reporters' evidence contradicts Israel's claim that it didn't target them, Blinken says the Israelis are investigating https://t.co/kYPraVolVJ
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VIDEO CORRECTION WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Israeli firing struck a group of journalists in southern Lebanon, killing Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah on Oct. 13, a Reuters investigation has found. We will delete previous posts containing an error https://t.co/BwFQUgRJLg
“The evidence we now have…shows that an Israeli tank crew killed our colleague Issam Abdallah. We condemn Issam’s killing. We call on Israel to explain how this could have happened and to hold to account those responsible for his death” - @Reuters https://t.co/zwnzWKWHBt
Reuters Issues Statement Condemning Israel Killing Their Journalist in Lebanon https://t.co/wg4tcM2Lyv
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has welcomed the release of reports by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse (AFP) into the deadly October 13 strike on journalists in southern Lebanon,. The investigations by the two human rights… https://t.co/KSkxXcSy8B https://t.co/2CmfZQ1H4A
The Israeli military, responding to a @Reuters investigation that determined its forces killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah in southern Lebanon on Oct. 13, said the incident took place in an active combat zone and was under review https://t.co/L3bpYL5qnR
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it was important that Israel's investigation into the killing of Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah in Lebanon concluded. An Israeli tank crew killed Abdallah and wounded six reporters in Lebanon on Oct. 13 https://t.co/yEvdA48Go3 https://t.co/nnE5F38jah
Blinken's response comes after investigations identified an Israeli tank responsible for the strikes in southern Lebanon that killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six others https://t.co/4VQzUxVU9Y https://t.co/lYvBxafSOE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it was important that Israel's inquiry into the killing of a Reuters journalist in Lebanon conclude. An investigation by Reuters revealed that an Israeli tank crew killed him https://t.co/yEvdA49edB https://t.co/EFFXtnzjoZ
Blinken: important that Israeli inquiry on killed Reuters journalist 'come to a conclusion' https://t.co/xYOkpQOnqe https://t.co/eaE1RaS3GF
“We condemn Issam's killing. We call on Israel to explain how this could have happened and to hold to account those responsible for his death” - Alessandra Galloni, Reuters editor-in-chief https://t.co/gg5tqVYhUo
Rights groups say Israeli strikes that killed a @Reuters journalist should be investigated as a war crime https://t.co/R3GHTfZcC2 https://t.co/Tlnj35jLzw
Blinken calls for thorough investigation into death of Reuters journalist in Israel https://t.co/3ktuHoaE17
BREAKING: US Secretary of State Blinken says the killing of a Reuters journalist by Israeli tank fire on southern Lebanon should be 'fully and thoroughly investigated'
Forensics confirms that Israeli tank rounds killed @Reuters journalist in Lebanon on October 13th. https://t.co/ZaO1bNj9Q4
'The evidence strongly suggests that Israeli forces knew or should have known that the group that they were attacking were journalists,' according to Human Rights Watch https://t.co/ohGsYj8gvz
Reuters Editor Condemns Israel For Killing Its Reporter After Publishing New Evidence of Tank Attack https://t.co/P62TeBGK0R
4 respected human rights orgs and news outlets—@HRW, @Amnesty, @AFP, and @Reuters—all released separate reports today concluding the IDF likely deliberately fired on journalists and killed one of them in Lebanon on Oct 13. This would amount to a war crime.https://t.co/o8GRw5CXMq
#Reuters yesterday released a detailed report slamming the #IDF’s defense of its mistaken attack on a group of journalists in #Lebanon on October 13, including a Reuters journalist, as invalid. ✍️ Report by @jeremybob1 https://t.co/zHtFdRjZH5
Reports by Reuters, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International, indicate that Lebanese journalist Issam Abdallah and a group of reporters were deliberately targeted near the Israel-Lebanon frontier, leading to his death and injuries to other journalists https://t.co/gg5tqVYhUo
Four respected human rights orgs and news outlets—@HRW, @Amnesty, @AFP, and @Reuters—all released separate reports today concluding the IDF likely deliberately fired on and killed journalists in Lebanon on Oct. 13. This would amount to a war crime. https://t.co/o8GRw5CXMq
An investigation conducted by the Reuters news agency into the killing of one of its visual journalists in southern Lebanon has concluded that an Israeli tank crew is responsible. https://t.co/GlkgSDy4cx
Amnesty: Israeli attack that killed Reuters journalist, wounded others must be investigated as a war crime https://t.co/gFtQaqwfAD
Israeli strikes on journalists in Lebanon were ‘apparently deliberate’, say rights groups https://t.co/nqUIhmP5kP via @ft
News organizations and rights groups that investigated shelling that killed a journalist and injured others in Lebanon in October said their separate investigations indicate that Israel was responsible. https://t.co/qrR13jdhvu
Killed in a press vest – evidence of Israeli responsibility for attack on journalists in Lebanon via @airwars https://t.co/s4noLkBuXu
🎥An AFP investigation into a strike in southern Lebanon that killed a Reuters journalist and injured six others, including two from AFP, points to a tank round used only by the Israeli army in this border region Watch our full investigation⤵️ https://t.co/mqqe4mwfDx
Investigations by leading human rights groups have found that the Israeli military killed Lebanese journalist Issam Abdallah and a group of reporters, prompting calls for accountability https://t.co/gg5tqVYhUo
AFP probe into October strike on journalists in Lebanon points to Israeli tank shell https://t.co/hMKYWnL5E0 . Click to read ⬇️
An Oct. 13 strike that killed a Reuters journalist and injured six others in southern Lebanon was carried out by the Israeli military and appeared to be a deliberate attack, Human Rights Watch said. https://t.co/8imFOytJ3G
Israeli killing of Lebanese journalist 'appears to be war crime' https://t.co/JRfnqDVMML https://t.co/R76CKerSPp
Israel should face war crimes probe over journalist death in #Lebanon: NGOs https://t.co/BlgBOar5cD @kaiss_ramzi @Eliebrakhya
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NEW - Israeli strike on journalists in Lebanon warrants ‘war crime’ probe: watchdogs https://t.co/0BTD8oofQR
Huge respect for our @Reuters @AFP @AmnestyUK @hrw friends who investigated the killing of beloved colleague Issam Abdallah. Israeli tanks fired directly on the group of journalists, investigation finds. “They knew we were there for well over an hour.” https://t.co/6sLovJo55c
Reuters & AFP Release Separate Investigations Into Death & Injury Of Journalists In Lebanese-Israeli Border Artillery Strike https://t.co/ZppuKtyxVf
Amnesty: Israeli attack that killed Reuters journalist, wounded others must be investigated as a war crime https://t.co/ocMreigyQs https://t.co/GkP4IOzBiS
⚡️Reuters final report: Israeli tank fire was behind the martyrdom of Issam Al-Abdullah https://t.co/ffW5XHRjly
“If you don’t want us to take pictures, fire a warning shot. Why suddenly hit us without a prior warning, and then try to finish us off with the second strike?”- Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah killed by Israeli tank, investigation finds https://t.co/MbUZQ8AaOh via @Reuters
Amnesty Intl: the first Israeli strike, which killed Issam Abdallah and severely injured AFP videographer and photographer Christina Assi, was a 120mm tank round fired from the hills between al-Nawaqir and Jordeikh in Israel #Lebanon https://t.co/uVMNNk44u0
⚡️#BREAKING Human Rights Watch: The two Israeli strikes on journalists in southern Lebanon are deliberate attacks on civilians, which constitutes a war crime.
An AFP investigation into the strike in southern Lebanon that killed a Reuters journalist and injured six others, including two from AFP, points to a tank round used only by the Israeli army in this border region Read our full report ➡️ https://t.co/PyXgfdlvzV https://t.co/JVEzkta1R2
🧵 An Agence France-Presse investigation into a strike in southern Lebanon that killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six others, including two from AFP, points to a tank round used only by the Israeli army in the region 1/8 ➡️ https://t.co/PyXgfdm3pt https://t.co/TXA5v882Tz
Amnesty Intl and Human Rights Watch to release findings from their in-depth investigations into the deadly Israeli attack on a group of journalists in south #Lebanon on October 13, which killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and injured 6 others. https://t.co/AFj7sOFEGb