Lebanon to complain at UN over 'deliberate killing' of Reuters journalist

Issam Abdallah: Abdallah was killed in southern Lebanon on Friday when missiles fired from the direction of Israel struck a group of journalists.

Published on: Oct 14, 2023, 17:01:32 IST

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Lebanon's foreign ministry said it will submit a formal complaint to the UN Security Council over what it called "Israel's deliberate killing" of Issam Abdallah, a Lebanese national and Reuters visuals journalist, state media reported on Saturday.

In this photo provided by Reuters, Issam Abdallah, a videographer for the news agency, poses for a selfie while working in Maras, Turkey, in February 11, 2023. (Issam Abdallah/Reuters via AP)

Abdallah was killed in southern Lebanon on Friday when missiles fired from the direction of Israel struck a group of journalists, a Reuters witness at the scene has said.

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