{"id":100,"date":"2026-03-28T20:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T20:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailylens.com.ng\/wp\/2026\/03\/28\/lebanon-denounces-death-of-three-journalists-killed-by-israeli-strike\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T20:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T20:37:30","slug":"lebanon-denounces-death-of-three-journalists-killed-by-israeli-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailylens.com.ng\/wp\/2026\/03\/28\/lebanon-denounces-death-of-three-journalists-killed-by-israeli-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon denounces death of three journalists killed by Israeli strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/dailylens.com.ng\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_3337-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailylens.com.ng\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_3337-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailylens.com.ng\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_3337-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailylens.com.ng\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_3337-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailylens.com.ng\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_3337.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Israeli strike killed three journalists Saturday in south Lebanon, including a well-known reporter for Hezbollah\u2019s Al Manar network, with Lebanese authorities denouncing the attack as a \u201cwar crime\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Israeli military confirmed killing Al Manar correspondent Ali Shoeib, accusing him of having \u201coperated within the Hezbollah terrorist organisation under the guise of a journalist\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lebanon was pulled into the Middle East war when Tehran-backed Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on March 2 to avenge the killing of Iran\u2019s supreme leader in the opening salvo of the US-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel has responded with large-scale airstrikes across Lebanon and a ground offensive in the south, with Lebanese authorities reporting at least 1,189 people killed since the hostilities broke out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Lebanese military source told AFP earlier on Saturday that Ali Shoeib of Hezbollah\u2019s Al Manar channel and Fatima Ftouni of Al Mayadeen, seen as close to the Iran-backed movement, were killed in Jezzine, alongside Ftouni\u2019s brother, a cameraman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al Mayadeen and Al Manar confirmed the deaths of their journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shoeib was one of Al Manar\u2019s most prominent war correspondents, having covered Israeli attacks on Lebanon for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli strike killed three journalists Saturday in south Lebanon, including a well-known reporter for Hezbollah\u2019s Al Manar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dailylens.com.ng\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_3337-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailylens.com.ng\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailylens.com.ng\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailylens.com.ng\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailylens.com.ng\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailylens.com.ng\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailylens.com.ng\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailylens.com.ng\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailylens.com.ng\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailylens.com.ng\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailylens.com.ng\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}