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"We
are aware of the incident with the Reuters journalist," army
spokesman Lt Col Richard Hecht told a regular briefing. "We are
looking into it. We already have visuals. We're doing cross
examination. It's a tragic thing," he said.
Lebanon said on Saturday said it would submit a formal complaint
to the UN Security Council on "Israel's deliberate killing" of
Reuters video journalist Issam Abdallah, a Lebanese national,
state media reported.
Abdallah was with a group of journalists from other
organisations, including Al Jazeera and Agence France-Presse,
when he was killed on Friday while providing a live video signal
for broadcasters.
The group was working near the village of Alma al-Shaab, close
to the Israel border, where the Israeli military and Hezbollah
have been trading fire in border clashes.
Maher Nazeh, who was wounded in the same incident along with his
Reuters colleague Thaer Al-Sudani, said they were filming
missile fire coming from the direction of Israel when one struck
Abdallah as he was sitting on a low stone wall near the rest of
the group. Seconds later, another missile hit the car being used
by the group, setting it aflame.
While other news outlets, including the Associated Press and Al
Jazeera, said the shells were Israeli, Reuters could not
establish whether the missiles had actually been fired by
Israel.
Agence France-Presse and Al Jazeera each said two of their
journalists were wounded in the incident.
(Reporting by Ari Rabinovitch; Editing by Jon Boyle)
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