An Israeli army tank killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six other journalists in Lebanon while they were filming cross-border shelling on Oct. 13, a Reuters investigation has found.
Well that’s… Comprehensive.
There’s not really any conclusion other than the IDF just committed a blatant war crime and any response less than the immediate arrest of those soldiers and their leadership will be seen as approval for war crimes from the government.
Not like that’s stopped the Israeli government before now! The most they ever argue on the issue is that they should be allowed to get away with it because something something “Hamas and Hezbollah did it first!” something something “you owe us because Holocaust (don’t ask how we treat the actual Holocaust survivor families that live here)” something something “any criticism is antisemitism!”
Not really any other conclusion? What about the one where the tank that fired at them was too far away to see them clearly but acted without communicating with soldiers who were closer and aware that the journalists weren’t a threat? Apparently that’s less likely than deliberately causing a PR disaster somewhere where there wasn’t even anything controversial going on for the journalists to record.
When the story first broke the witnesses/journalists said that a couple of drones had hovered over them before they were hit.
Israel knew damn well they were journalists and didn’t give a shit … because the IDF actively hunts them down and murders them.
weird, i’m getting an “Access Denied” page when i click on the link. anyone else?
Edit: It’s because it’s here.
same here
This worked for me, thank you!
Inb4 downpunxxx comments claiming Reuters is a terrorist organization.
