Two Lebanese journalists killed in latest wave of Israeli attacks

Two Lebanese journalists were killed in Israel's latest wave of attacks on Lebanon which had claimed the lives of over 570 people, including more than 50 children and 90 women, in just 48 hours.

On Wednesday, the Hezbollah media arm, Al-Manar TV, said its cameraman Kamel Karaki was killed in an Israeli air raid on Qantara town in southern Lebanon.

Karaki was a renowned photojournalist locally and his death was mourned among journalists in Lebanon. He was the sixth journalist to be killed by Israel in Lebanon since 7 October.

His killing came just a day after Hadi al-Sayyed, a journalist for Al-Mayadeen television, died after scumming to wounds sustained in an Israeli strike on his home on Monday.

The outlet said al-Sayyed had suffered critical injuries to the head after an Israeli strike hit his southern Lebanon hometown of Burj Rahhal.

In a statement, it said al-Sayyed was "young, courteous, dedicated and ambitious".

The International Federation of Journalists had documented the death of four more journalists in Lebanon, including Reuters's Issam Abdallah, since October last year.

Israel's killing of journalists has drawn significant scrutiny, especially after separate investigations found that Abdallah and a group of reporters were deliberately targeted by Israeli tank shelling in October while covering cross-border clashes in southern Lebanon.

Independent inquiries by Reuters, AFP, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and Reporters Without Borders concluded that the attack on Abdallah and other media personnel was a deliberate violation of international law.

These organisations have since called for a war crimes investigation.