Russia accuses Israel of ‘targeted’ strike that wounded TV crew in Lebanon

By AFP 19 March 2026, 7:50 pm

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Russia accuses Israel of deliberately targeting a TV crew from state-run RT broadcaster reporting from southern Lebanon with a strike that wounded a reporter and a cameraman.

“The crew’s clothing clearly read ‘press,’ and they were carrying only cameras and microphones… All these circumstances indicate that the attack on the journalists was deliberate and targeted,” the Russian foreign ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says in a statement.

The Israeli military said the TV crew was operating in an area where a warning to leave had been issued. It regularly says it “has never and will never deliberately target journalists.”