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AFP investigation points the killing of Reuters Issam Abdallah to Israeli shelling

Published December 7th, 2023 - 08:40 GMT
Issam Abdallah
People lift placards and portraits of video journalist Issam Abdallah killed on October 13 by Israeli shelling at Alma al-Shaab border village with Israel while covering cross border shelling, during a protest facing UN headquarters in downtown Beirut on October 15, 2023. Lebanon said on October 14 that Israel was behind cross-border fire that killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six others near the border. (Photo by JOSEPH EID / AFP)

ALBAWABA - An AFP investigation published Thursday into the strike in southern Lebanon on October 13 points to a tank shell only used by the Israeli army in this high-tension border region.

The Israeli strike that killed one journalist and injured six others merits a "war crime" investigation, rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch told AFP on Thursday. Issam Abdallah, 37, and Reuters video journalist was killed instantly in the strike. 

The others present, two other Reuters journalists, two from Al Jazeera, and two from AFP, were all injured. AFP photographer Christina Assi, 28, was seriously wounded, later had a leg amputated and is still in hospital.