IDF says it’s ‘very sorry’ for death of journalist on Lebanese border

By Agencies 14 October 2023, 11:59 am

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In this photo provided by Reuters, Issam Abdallah, a videographer for the news agency, poses for a selfie while working in Maras, Turkey, on Feb. 11, 2023. Abdallah was killed Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, when an Israeli shell landed in a gathering of international journalists covering clashes on the border in south Lebanon. Six other journalists were injured in the incident. (Issam Abdallah/Reuters via AP)

The Israeli army says it was “very sorry” for the death of a Reuters journalist killed when caught up in cross-border shelling along the frontier with Lebanon.

“We are very sorry for the journalist’s death,” military spokesman Richard Hecht tells reporters when asked about the killing of the Reuters videographer on Friday.

The Israeli military did not acknowledge responsibility, however. “We are looking into it,” Hecht says of the incident in which six other journalists, including two from AFP, were also injured.