The attack comes one day after Israeli airstrikes in eastern and southern Lebanon left eight people dead and 12 injured, according to official figures in the deadliest day of escalation in three weeks.
A Lebanese journalist was killed in an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle in the Nabatieh district of south Lebanon.
The attack marks another breach of the fragile ceasefire agreement that has been in place since late 2024, the Anadolu news agency reported.
The Lebanese Health Ministry confirmed in a statement that “an Israeli drone strike on the al-Zahrani road in the Nabatieh district resulted in the death of one person.”
Israeli drone strike kills reporter, photographer and the director of the Hawana Lebanon news website, Mohammad Shehadeh, after his vehicle was targeted on the Ansariyeh road in southern Lebanon.
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Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported that civil defense teams recovered the body from the targeted car along the Sidon-Tyre coastal road.
The body was transported to a nearby hospital, while the area remains under low-flying Israeli drone surveillance.
NNA identified the victim as Mohammad Shehadeh, a journalist, photojournalist, and director of the media platform Hawana Lebanon.
Deadliest Day of Escalation
The attack comes one day after Israeli airstrikes in eastern and southern Lebanon left eight people dead, including a Syrian national, and 12 injured, according to official figures in the deadliest day of escalation in three weeks, cited by Anadolu.
Israel launched military operations in Lebanon on October 8, 2023, which escalated into a full-scale war by September 2024, killing more than 4,000 people and injuring around 17,000.
Lebanese Resistance Slams Disarmament Push as Surrender to US-Israeli Pressure
A ceasefire was reached in November, but Israeli forces have conducted near-daily attacks in southern Lebanon, claiming to target activities of the Hezbollah group, the report added.
Under the truce, Israel was supposed to fully withdraw from southern Lebanon by Jan. 26, but the deadline was extended to February 18 after Tel Aviv refused to comply. Israel still maintains a military presence at five border outposts.
US Ceasefire Plan Opposed
On Thursday, ministers affiliated with Hezbollah and the Amal Movement walked out of a Lebanese Cabinet meeting in protest against the government’s endorsement of the objectives of a US-brokered ceasefire plan with Israel — a plan that includes a timetable for disarming Hezbollah.
The ministers’ withdrawal, which also included Administrative Development Minister Fadi Makki, occurred during a session that lasted several hours.
Hezbollah, Amal Ministers Exit Cabinet Meeting in Protest of US Ceasefire Plan
According to Al-Jazeera, the ministers left shortly after the government formally adopted the goals outlined in the American proposal.
n a strongly worded statement, Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc — the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc — denounced the Cabinet’s decision, calling it a “suspiciously hasty and unjustifiable” alignment with Washington’s agenda.
The group warned that the government was abandoning its ministerial pledges and undermining both the Lebanese constitution and the Taif Agreement, which affirms Lebanon’s right to resist foreign aggression and maintain national sovereignty.
(Anadolu, PC)
Zionists and their allies are terrorists, and they shall be treated as such. If it was Hizb-Allah murdering a zionist journalist, western media outlets would have unleashed hell upon the Hizb. But since the journalist was actually Lebanese, the media simply don’t care.
Well, Aoun. Happy taking a hand full of silver for the entire Lebanon – including another journalist?