A Lebanese reporter was killed during fighting on the Israel-Lebanon border on Tuesday.
The reporter, Assaf Abu Rahal, worked for the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar. According to media reports and press freedom organizations, he was killed near the southern town of Al-Adaysseh.
Assaf Abu Rahal, a reporter for the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar/Committee to Protect Journalists
He was killed when a shell landed next to him.
Abu Rahal was 55 years old and covered southern Lebanon for Al-Akhbar for the last four years. He reported on the aftermath of the 2006 conflict between Israeli and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon, according to his newspaper.
He was married with three children.
It was the first media casualty in the area since freelance photographer Layal Najib was killed in the war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006.
Four others–three Lebanese soldiers and an Israeli officer–were also killed in the fighting.
Aerial view of the Israel/Lebanon border/IDF