On the morning of March 28, Fatima Ftouni, a journalist in southern Lebanon, filed a live news dispatch for Al Mayadeen, a Beirut-based television network. Wearing a press vest and helmet, she described the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) occupying parts of the town of Taybeh and retaliatory attacks by Hezbollah, the Shiite political party and armed group with which Al Mayadeen is editorially aligned. Several hours later, Ftouni; her brother Mohammad, a videographer; and Ali Shoeib, a correspondent who worked for a Hezbollah-affiliated outlet called Al-Manar, were driving near the district of Jezzine in a car marked “Press” when an Israeli drone fired four precision-guided missiles at them, killing all three journalists.
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