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Burned-out car and press vest: Photo from scene of strike which killed journalistspublished at 17:14 GMT

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We have now seen images of a journalist holding a press vest at the site of a strike in Lebanon, where three journalists were killed.

A burned-out car is visible in the background.

The man in the photo, Jamal Al-Gharabi, works for Al Mayadin, a TV channel based in Beirut.

As we reported earlier, two of the journalists killed in the strike were his colleagues: reporter Fatima Fetoni and cameraman Mohamed Fetoni.

A reporter from Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV channel, Ali Shoeib, was also killed.

Confirming Shoeib’s death in a post on Telegram, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) accused him of being a Hezbollah operative “under the guise of a journalist”.

But responding to the attack, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a leading body which promotes press freedom, says: “Journalists are not legitimate targets, regardless of the outlet they work for.”

Sara Qudah, regional director at the CPJ, says there is a “disturbing pattern” both “in this war and in the decades prior” of “Israel accusing journalists of being active combatants and terrorists without providing credible evidence”.

During the course of the war in Gaza, Israel has repeatedly denied deliberately targeting civilians.