KABUL (Pajhwok): At least five people, including a journalist, were killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon, Al Jazeera reported on Thursday.
An initial Israeli strike targeted a car in at-Tiri, a village in southern Lebanon, killing two people inside, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported on Wednesday.
The Israeli military said it struck two vehicles in southern Lebanon that had departed from a military structure used by the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.
The NNA said a later airstrike on a building in the same village wounded a journalist who became trapped under the rubble. Amal Khalil, who worked for local media outlet Al Akhbar, was later found dead at the scene, her employer confirmed.
Reporting from Tyre in southern Lebanon, Al Jazeera’s Heidi Pett said two journalists from Al Akhbar had travelled to the site of the first strike in at-Tiri.
“Amal Khalil and Zeinab Faraj had gone to the site of an earlier Israeli drone strike on a car, which reportedly killed two civilians in the town of at-Tiri,” Pett said.
“For several hours, the Red Cross and rescue workers tried to reach the two journalists. They were unable to do so for a long time due to continued Israeli attacks in the area.”
Faraj was taken to a local hospital and was reportedly in very serious condition and required surgery, Pett added.
Lebanon’s Ministry of Health had earlier said Israel “pursued” the journalists by targeting the building where they had taken shelter.
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