(1 Sep 2025)
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Beirut, Lebanon – 1 September 2025
1. Wide of Lebanese and Palestinian journalists gathering in central Beirut, holding flags
2. Tilt-up from banner reading (English) "The killing of Palestinian journalists is a war crime that requires international prosecution"
3. Mid of press helmet and cameras
4. Various of Lebanese and Palestinian journalists holding demonstration
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Walid Kilani, spokesperson for Hamas in Lebanon:
"Today, we stand in Beirut, in the heart of the capital, Beirut, to say that this enemy – which claims to be the most (civilized) in the region – is committing all these crimes against journalists. We are saying that everything in the Gaza Strip has been targeted. More than 245 journalists have been killed in cold blood. Why is it targeting journalists? To kill the truth."
6. Various of Lebanese and Palestinian journalists at demonstration, some holding signs reading (Arabic) "The martyred media professionals"
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdul Malik Sakrieh, activist:
"(Israel) wants to exterminate journalists to make it easier for them to exterminate the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip or uproot them out of the Gaza Strip. Therefore, today’s gathering is a message to the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and also to the global media to stand by their fellow journalists in the Gaza Strip and to shed light on the deliberate killing of journalists."
8. Various of Lebanese and Palestinian journalists gathering in central Beirut holding signs, some reading (English) "We stand with the journalists of Gaza" and "Israel kills journalists, writers and photographers"
STORYLINE:
Lebanese journalists and Palestinians gathered in central Beirut on Monday to express solidarity with Palestinian media workers in the Gaza Strip and denounce the killing of journalists in the enclave.
"(Israel) wants to exterminate journalists to make it easier for them to exterminate the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip or uproot them," activist Abdul Malik Sakrieh said, speaking at the demonstration in Beirut.
Nearly 200 journalists have been killed since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023.
They include men and women, freelancers and staffers, veterans with years in the field and young reporters on some of their first assignments.
Some were killed with their families at home, others were in vehicles marked “PRESS,” in tents near hospitals, or out covering the violence.
Many endured the same conditions as those they covered — hunger, displacement, and grief.
The war in Gaza has been the most dangerous conflict for journalists and media workers in recent history, observers say.
Mariam Dagga, a 33-year-old who freelanced for The Associated Press, was among the war’s victims.
She and four other reporters were killed last week when Israeli forces struck Nasser Hospital in the Gaza town of Khan Younis, along with 17 other people.
There have also been casualties among journalists in Lebanon during the 14-month conflict that began in 2023 between Israel and militant group Hezbollah.
In November 2023, two Lebanese journalists for Al-Mayadeen TV were killed in a drone strike at their reporting spot in south Lebanon.
A month earlier, Israeli shelling in southern Lebanon killed Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah and seriously wounded other journalists from France’s international news agency Agence France-Presse and Qatar’s Al-Jazeera TV on a hilltop not far from the Israeli border.
AP video shot by Fadi Tawil
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