Reuters video journalist killed in Lebanon rocket strike during live feed
FOX News Jonathan Hunt reports on the rocket strike that killed the Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah amid fighting in the area.
A Reuters video journalist was killed in Lebanon Friday while covering the ongoing war that began last weekend when Hamas launched terror attacks on Israel.
"We are deeply saddened to learn that our videographer, Issam Abdallah, has been killed. Issam was part of a Reuters crew in southern Lebanon who was providing a live signal. We are urgently seeking more information, working with authorities in the region, and supporting Issam’s family and colleagues," Reuters said in a statement.
"Reuters journalists Thaer Al-Sudani and Maher Nazeh also sustained injuries and are seeking medical care," Reuters continued. "Our thoughts are with their families at this terrible time."
Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah was killed in Lebanon Friday. (issamabdallah/ Instagram)
FOX News anchor Sandra Smith became emotional when covering the tragic death.
"We pray for his family," she said. "We thank him for his journalism, a life gone way too soon."
FOX News anchor and executive editor of "Special Report" Bret Baier said Abdallah's death is reminder of the dangers reporters face in a war zone - a pain the FOX News family still feels.
"It's truly sad to hear this," Baier said on "America Reports." "It is an example of how dangerous it is to cover a war zone overall. Obviously, we here at FOX have felt that directly with Benjamin Hall and his crew, the loss of the cameraman Pierre [Zakrzewski] and and a translator and fixer [Oleksandra "Sasha" Kuvshynova]."
The Associated Press reported Friday that an Israeli shell landed in a gathering of international journalists covering clashes on Israel's border with Lebanon. Qatar’s Al-Jazeera TV, said two of its employees, Elie Brakhya and reporter Carmen Joukhadar, also were among the wounded, according to the AP.
Others wounded were not yet identified by their respective outlets.
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Israeli soldiers take positions alongside the border wall and fence with Lebanon as seen from the Lebanese side in Marwaheen, Lebanon, on Friday. (AP/Hassan Ammar)
On Saturday, Hamas terrorists committed the worst attack on Israel in its 75-year history, killing at least 1,200, many of them civilians, and taking upwards of 150 hostages. Israel then declared war on Hamas, and many quickly suspected terror group Hezbollah would join Hamas.
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Journalists from around the world have been coming to Lebanon out of concern that war might break out between Hezbollah and Israel.
Hezbollah said it targeted Israeli military posts on the northern border Friday as Israel wages war against the Palestinian terror group Hamas to its south. Israeli Defense Forces said they retaliated with tank and artillery fire towards the fire from Lebanon.
Fox News' Trey Yingst and the Associated Press contributed to this update.
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