News Center- An Israeli airstrike on a building used by reporters in the town of Hasbaya, in southeastern Lebanon, killed three journalists on Friday.

The Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen channel said early that its cameraman Ghassan Najjar and its broadcast engineer Mohammad Rida were among those killed. The third journalist identified as Wissam Qassem was a cameraman working for Al-Manar channel.

The Lebanese ministry of health said three others were injured in the airstrike. Lebanon's Information Minister Ziad Makary said the attack was deliberate and described it as a “war crime”.

The ongoing Israeli aggression against Lebanon has killed 2,593 people and injured 12,119 others since the start of the offensive on October 8, 2023. 104 children and 194 women are among the killed people. The ongoing Israeli attacks have displaced hundreds of thousands of people in Lebanon. More than 486,000 displaced people of Lebanon have taken shelter in Syria.