{"id":371635,"date":"2026-04-02T19:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/371635\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:02:12","slug":"un-experts-urge-probe-into-israels-killing-of-lebanese-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/371635\/","title":{"rendered":"UN experts urge probe into Israel\u2019s killing of Lebanese journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">UN experts have called for an international investigation into the death of three Lebanese journalists in an Israeli strike, saying Israel had not provided &#8220;credible evidence&#8221; of their alleged links to armed groups. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The three journalists, including Ali Shoeib, a star correspondent for Al Manar channel of Hezbollah, which is at war with Israel, were killed on March 28 in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">&#8220;We denounce strongly what has now become a standard, dangerous practice of Israel to target and kill journalists and then claim, without providing any credible evidence, that they were involved with armed groups,&#8221; the experts said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The Israeli army had described Shoeib as a member of the Radwan force, an elite Hezbollah unit, operating &#8220;under the guise of a journalist&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">According to the experts, Israel&#8217;s only so-called &#8220;evidence&#8221; for its claims was a photoshopped image of the journalist.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Journalism not combat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UN experts have called for an international investigation into the death of three Lebanese journalists in an Israeli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-371635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}