Israeli TV presenter blows up building in Lebanon
Beirut (Quds News Network)- An Israeli TV presenter was filmed blowing up a building in Lebanon during a broadcast amid escalating Israeli attacks against journalists in Lebanon and Gaza.
Danny Kushmaro, a news presenter on Channel 12, was shown wearing a bulletproof vest and helmet while an Israeli soldier instructed him on how to detonate an explosive device.
After a countdown, the journalist then pressed the detonator button, destroying the building.
Etan Nechin, New York correspondent for Haaretz, described the incident as “sickening” and said it came at a time when Palestinian and Lebanese journalists were facing unprecedented numbers of killings and arrests.
Unbelievable: Host of @N12News Danny Kushmaro, joined IDF forces in South Lebanon and bombed a building.
This is while IDF targets Palestinian journalists on tenuous charges and kills Lebanese journalists in their sleep. Sickening
— Etan Nechin (@Etanetan23) October 26, 2024
Israel’s war on Lebanon has killed over 2,500 people in the country since it began last October, with most casualties occurring in the intensified bombing campaign that started last month.
On Friday, the Israeli military killed three journalists in a direct hit while sleeping in their accommodation in southern Lebanon. The air raid hit a compound in Hasbaiyya housing several journalists, killing two cameramen and a technician.
Critics accuse Israel of deliberately targeting journalists in the Palestinian territory and Lebanon to obscure the truth about its war crimes there.
In Lebanon, 11 Lebanese journalists have been killed since October 2023 in direct Israeli attacks, Lebanon’s Minister of Health announced on Friday.
In Gaza, 182 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the ongoing Israeli genocide war on October 7, 2023, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.
