A protester in Beirut on March 28, 2026, holds portraits of Ali Choeib and Fatima Ftouni, journalists with Al-Manar and Al-Mayadeen who were killed earlier that day by an Israeli strike on their vehicle in Jezzine, southern Lebanon. (Credit: Matthieu Karam/L'Orient-Le Jour)
Hundreds of Lebanese and foreign journalists gathered around 5:30 p.m. at Martyrs' Square in Beirut to denounce Israel's killing of three colleagues on March 28. An Israeli drone strike on their car had killed Fatima Ftouni, her brother, cameraman Mohammad Ftouni, and Ali Choeib just a few hours earlier in Jezzine. The gathering also called on the government to respond forcefully to end this impunity.A stand had to be taken, despite the sense that history keeps repeating itself, to reject the normalization of the worst. Some carried candles, others held signs provided by the union. Here, there was a call to document war crimes; there, to grant the International Criminal Court jurisdiction to judge these alleged war crimes. Sadness and anger mingled, and some faces struggled to hold back tears. The names of Fatima Ftouni, Mohammad...
Hundreds of Lebanese and foreign journalists gathered around 5:30 p.m. at Martyrs' Square in Beirut to denounce Israel's killing of three colleagues on March 28. An Israeli drone strike on their car had killed Fatima Ftouni, her brother, cameraman Mohammad Ftouni, and Ali Choeib just a few hours earlier in Jezzine. The gathering also called on the government to respond forcefully to end this impunity.A stand had to be taken, despite the sense that history keeps repeating itself, to reject the normalization of the worst. Some carried candles, others held signs provided by the union. Here, there was a call to document war crimes; there, to grant the International Criminal Court jurisdiction to judge these alleged war crimes. Sadness and anger mingled, and some faces struggled to hold back tears. The names of Fatima Ftouni,...
