A television presenter who worked for Lebanon’s Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV station has been killed in an Israeli attack on the southern Lebanese city of Tyre as Israel escalated its attacks against the country.
Lebanon’s Information Minister Paul Morcos condemned the killing of presenter Ali Nour el-Din on Monday, saying that the attack is part of Israel’s repeated violations of international law.
“We declare our solidarity and condolences to the media family, and call on the international community to fully assume its responsibilities and take urgent action to put an end to these violations and ensure the protection of media professionals in Lebanon,” the minister said in a social media post.
Al-Manar TV confirmed that the attack in Tyre killed Nour el-Din, saying that he worked at the channel as a presenter of religious programmes.
Nour el-Din also served as the main preacher in Al-Hawsh, in the suburbs of Tyre, Hezbollah said, calling his killing a “treacherous assassination”.
“The targeting of the martyred journalist Ali Nour el-Din signals the danger of the enemy’s continued aggression, now targeting the media in all its forms as a continuation of its systematic assassination policy and attempts to silence the voice of truth and freedom,” the group said in a statement.
Prior to Nour el-Din’s killing on Monday, at least six Lebanese journalists had been killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since 2023, according to a tally by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Other monitors have put the death toll of Lebanese journalists at 10.
Credit: aljazeera.com
