How Israel is waging war on bearing witness in Lebanon Submitted by Ghada Ageel on Mon, 03/30/2026 - 16:07 Killing of three journalists follows a brutal pattern established in Gaza, amid ongoing efforts to transform victims into accused People hold pictures of Fatima Ftouni and Ali Shoeib in downtown Beirut, as they protest their killing from an Israeli strike that targeted their vehicle in southern Lebanon on 28 March, 2026 (AFP) On After a day of documenting destroyed families and their homes, Al Mayadeen TV reporter Fatima Ftouni was traveling with colleagues on the Kfarhouna–Jezzine road in southern Lebanon when an Israeli drone began its attack on Saturday. The first missile struck near the clearly marked press vehicle. Fatima managed to run away, but then th second strike hit - followed by a third and a fourth.  The Israeli attack killed Ftouni, her brother, and fellow journalist Ali Shuaib, along with two other civilians who tried to help.  When another colleague, Jamal al-Gharabi, later reached the site of the strike, there was almost nothing left to recover from the vehicle, beyond the smouldering remains of a press vest, a Palestinian  keffiyeh she carried with her and the last trace of a journalist whose only weapon was the act of witnessing. Ftouni was one of those brave journalists who had already suffered so much, but kept going because she was powered by her dedication to the truth. Just weeks ago, her uncle and his family were killed in an Israeli strike, which she reported on live television for Al Mayadeen. When the three Lebanese journalists were hit on Saturday, they were in a clearly marked press vehicle. In seconds, the home of truth became a site of terror.  The Israeli military openly acknowledged the strike, alleging that Shuaib was embedded within a Hezbollah intelligence unit and had been tracking troop movements. As in countless previous cases, these accusations were made without publicly available or independ