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Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced on Thursday that "the Lebanese government will take all necessary measures to include the reports" published by Reuters and AFP agencies about the Israeli attacks on journalists in South Lebanon on October 13 in the complaint filed against Tel Aviv with the United Nations Security Council.
On November 21, Lebanon filed a complaint against Israel with the UN Security Council following the Israeli bombardment of Alma al-Shaab in southern Lebanon, in which Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah was killed and six others working for Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Al-Jazeera were injured, including Christina Assi, who was seriously wounded.
Investigations by Reuters and AFP have confirmed that a 120 mm shell was fired from an Israeli Merkava tank, and that the Israelis knew that a group of journalists were at the target site.
Denouncing "Israeli criminality," Mikati considered that "the targeting of media institutions is aimed at silencing any voice that bears witness to Israeli aggression."
He affirmed that he had contacted the caretaker Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Abdallah Bou Habib, and Information, Ziad Makary, to follow up on this matter.
According to his explanations, Makary "has initiated the necessary procedures to file the required complaints with the relevant authorities." The minister, he said, was in the process of establishing the necessary correspondence with the ambassadors of the major powers accredited to Lebanon, to ask them to take the appropriate positions on the two reports.
Makary confirmed this on his X account, adding that "the two reports will be sent to the relevant international, security, judicial and diplomatic bodies." He added, "We will ceaselessly follow the case of the journalists killed and wounded by Israel to the end." The minister also highlighted that two international NGOs, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have classified the Israeli attack on the reporters as a "war crime."
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On November 21, Lebanon filed a complaint against Israel with the UN Security Council following the Israeli bombardment of Alma al-Shaab in southern Lebanon, in which Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah was killed and six others working for Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Al-Jazeera were injured, including Christina Assi, who was seriously wounded.
Investigations by Reuters and AFP have confirmed that a 120 mm shell was fired from an Israeli Merkava tank, and that the Israelis knew that a group of journalists were at the target site.
Denouncing "Israeli criminality," Mikati considered that "the targeting of media institutions is aimed at silencing any voice that bears witness to Israeli aggression."
He affirmed that he had contacted the caretaker Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Abdallah Bou Habib, and Information, Ziad Makary, to follow up on this matter.
According to his explanations, Makary "has initiated the necessary procedures to file the required complaints with the relevant authorities." The minister, he said, was in the process of establishing the necessary correspondence with the ambassadors of the major powers accredited to Lebanon, to ask them to take the appropriate positions on the two reports.
Makary confirmed this on his X account, adding that "the two reports will be sent to the relevant international, security, judicial and diplomatic bodies." He added, "We will ceaselessly follow the case of the journalists killed and wounded by Israel to the end." The minister also highlighted that two international NGOs, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have classified the Israeli attack on the reporters as a "war crime."
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