Israel Hits Marked Press Crew in Lebanon; Media Targeting Reaches Breaking Point

Israel can post all the warnings it likes, but when a clearly marked press crew is still hit in Lebanon, the excuse is already falling apart. Right, so Israel has hit a marked press crew in Lebanon, but frankly for anyone who has followed similar attacks in Gaza for the last two and half years, its not exactly breaking news perhaps, but actually, this might carry consequences for Israel their arrogance might have left them thinking they could still get away with. RT reporter Steve Sweeney and his cameraman Ali Rida Sbeity were it seems deliberately targeted by the Israeli regime, whilst reporting in Lebanon [CLIP] After months and months of dead journalists in Gaza, it seems Israel has had no qualms about doing so in Lebanon too, only this time they don’t have the comfort of censorship here, the ability to claim Hamas did it, because they control the occupied territory. A marked crew was there, the crossing was struck, the footage very much exists and has gone viral, and so the problem for Israel starts, because there’s no cover for this – there was nothing else there, save for Steve Sweeney and his cameraman. There is no other plausible target. Gaza has already produced the deadliest conflict ever recorded for journalists according to the Watson Institute work cited by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, and the International Federation of Journalists has put the Gaza journalist death toll at at least 234 as of 9 March this year.