“We will not be silenced. Even as they kill us our voices will be heard

“They were fathers, brothers and sons - now they are sons of Lebanon, people say, martyrs who will live forever.”

I paid my respects at the funeral of Al Mayadeen journalists Ghassan Najjar and Mohammad Red and Al Manar camera operator Wissam Qassim, killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on Friday as they slept.

Like their colleagues, I will continue my journalism in their memory. Rest in power.

The three journalists martyred in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon arrive in Beirut as a drone hovers overhead.

Ghassan Najjar and engineer Mohamed Reda who worked for Al Mayadeen and Al-Manar TV camera operator Wissam Qassim were killed in what has been described as a targeted attack as they slept.

It comes days after Israel labeled the last six journalists in northern Gaza “terrorists” saying without evidence they are members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, effectively a smokescreen for their assassination.

Al Mayadeen chief Ghassan Ben Jeddou says the strike was deliberate. A war crime.

"The Israeli occupation takes pleasure in killing, and among those it targets are journalists who expose its criminality, so it hates them sadistically,” he said.

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أعلن رئيس الوزراء الإسرائيلي بنيامين نتنياهو أنه التقى الرئيس التنفيذي لشركة «تسلا» إيلون ماسك في واشنطن يوم الأربعاء بعد خطابه أمام الكونغرس الأميركي.

وقال نتنياهو على منصة «إكس»: ناقشنا الفرص والتحديات في مجال الذكاء الاصطناعي، وتأثيره على الاقتصاد والمجتمع، واستكشفنا سبل التعاون التكنولوجي مع إسرائيل».

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he met with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in Washington on Wednesday after his speech to the US Congress.

Netanyahu said on the “X” platform: “We discussed the opportunities and challenges in the field of artificial intelligence, its impact on the economy and society, and we explored ways of technological cooperation with Israel.”