Lebanon's journalists fear being Israel’s next victim

In December, Ibrahim Dawi was driving with a group of other journalists on an empty road between the coastal town of Naqoura and Tayri in south Lebanon when they narrowly survived an Israeli attack.

“Israel is specifically targeting journalists to curb the truth. I will need to be more vigilant, but I have no intention to scale back on my reporting,” said Dawi, a 21-year-old reporter for the independent broadcaster Radio Sawt El Shaab.

The incident recalls several others where journalists have been involved in life-threatening experiences when Israel struck areas where they had been reporting on the growing border tension between Israel and Hezbollah.

In total, Israeli attacks have so far claimed the lives of three Lebanese journalists.

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