Journalists are once again hit by the war in the Middle East. Four family members of a Lebanese journalist, including three children, were killed in an Israeli strike on Sunday while driving on a road in southern Lebanon, according to state media. The victims are the sister of journalist Samir Ayoub, a correspondent for a local radio station, and her three grandchildren, aged 14, 12 and 10, according to the national news agency Ani.
The journalist, who was driving his car, was injured. His relatives followed him in a second car. The border area between Lebanon and Israel has been the scene of frequent exchanges of fire between the Israeli army and the pro-Iranian Hezbollah in particular, since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas, triggered on October 7 by the bloody attack of the Palestinian Islamist movement on Israeli soil.
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On Sunday morning, four rescue workers were injured in an Israeli shelling of two ambulances belonging to a local association, the association and ANI reported. On 13 October, a Reuters journalist, Issam Abdallah, was killed and six others, including two from AFP, were wounded while covering violence in southern Lebanon. The Lebanese authorities had blamed Israel.
Since October 7, 81 people have died on the Lebanese side, according to an AFP tally, including 59 Hezbollah fighters and at least 11 civilians. Six soldiers and one civilian were killed on the Israeli side, according to the authorities.