Pro-Amal Al-Rissala radio station attacked by Israel in Beirut's southern suburbs

On Friday, Hezbollah “strongly condemned” Israel's attack on the building housing the premises of Radio Al-Rissala, founded by the Amal party and described on its website as “a committed Lebanese political media, aiming to raise awareness among the Lebanese masses of issues of national interest.”

Located in Beirut's southern suburbs, the building was opposite the Rawdat al-Shahidayn complex, the military cemetery of the Islamic resistance's “martyrs” in Ghobeiri, near which two Israeli strikes were carried out at around 9:30 a.m. on Thursday.

In its statement, the party called on international and Arab media institutions to condemn the strike against Al-Rissala, denouncing “the criminal practices exercised by the Zionist enemy against press actors and media professionals.” Hezbollah denounced the “systematic terrorist strategy aimed at silencing the voice of resistance” and Israeli attempts “to eradicate free media, from Palestine to Lebanon.”

This attack is part of a series of strikes targeting journalists and media outlets often affiliated with the Shiite tandem. On Thursday, the premises of Taha TV, a channel broadcasting religious content aimed at children aged two to 14, were hit by Israeli strikes. On Tuesday, Lebanese journalist Soukaina Mansour Kawtharani was killed in an Israeli raid on a residential building in Joun, in the Chouf region. She was a correspondent for the Hezbollah-affiliated Radio al-Nour. On Oct. 23, a strike also damaged the premises of the Al Mayadeen channel in Jnah. On the night of Sept. 30/Oct. 1, the premises of Al-Sirat television, a pro-Hezbollah religious channel, were razed to the ground by Israeli aircraft.