He is injured but not dead
Thank goodness they didn’t double tap him.
Being a journalist in range of Israel isn’t the safest of occupations.
No kidding.
The Gaza war has become the deadliest conflict for journalists in history, with reports indicating that Israeli actions killed over 180 to more than 270 journalists, mostly Palestinians, between October 2023 and August 2025.
Israel is openly targeting journalists. The IDF have shot anyone with MEDIA on their body. they have been since the Oct 7 attacks. Israel does not want their genocide or war crimes exposed, so they actively (and encourage) soldiers to target media.
And now the USA has sided with this regime to kill more civilians in Iran.
For comparison’s sake, I wonder what Iran’s numbers are like.
It’s ok guys, the missile just happened to safely “land” in the area, by chance, “next to” the guy, who is only a “presenter”, not a journalist . There’s definitely no war crime to see here.
Our “Journalists”, their “Presenters”
History is written by the victors. This realization has made me question every version of history I have ever been taught
As moral compasses adjust over time, it has become clear that almost everyone that made it into history books was an asshole. And the ones that weren’t might have only been that way because they died too soon or history had gaps.
Ahh the BBC, Pinnacle of using soft language (*passive voice is what I meant here) to describe war crimes
Only when Israel is the perpetrator. This is the NYT, but the BBC does the same thing.
Yuuuup. Almost like there’s a lot of powerful people worldwide that rely on propaganda to not just obfuscate their horrifyingly immoral acts, but create a culture where these acts are permissible when discovered.
Think about how the news used passive voice to never use the word rape or torture to describe what the epstein elite were doing to children, despite it being clearly laid out in front of our eyes.
Same thing happening in Gaza, Lebanon, Sudan, West Papua, and now Iran, in a non exhaustive but exhausting list of countries where the west is funding and arming genocides in the name of “Spreading democracy” (Stealing Natural Resources ) while the news stations softly softly their way around talking points.
Israel definitely didn’t try to kill this journalist or the 300 journalists they successfully killed in the last 2.5 years.
I heard this on the radio, it sounds so bad.
Why am I not surprised that it is Israel that makes such mistakes?
Once is a mistake, twice maybe, 738363727th time surely aint a mistake. These fuckers just like killing people for no reason.
It’s not for no reason. They do it to hide their ethnic cleansing and illegal expansionism.
Any world leader and politician not calling out israel government is evil and lying to people.
Life under capitalism, where 95% of your leaders are trying to think of better ways to exploit you.
what a chad. may he continue to evade bombs for a long time
Didn’t really evade this bomb though, did he? Someone said it struck in the crack there and exploded in there, which was very lucky for them. Otherwise, smithereens.
Oy im out of date. When did israel started attacking lebanon and why?
They have been attacking Lebanon every day since the “ceasefire” with Hezbollah.
If you want something even crazier, Israel just bombed Syria who is not even involved in any of this and even helps Israel.
The Middle East is now just Israel and temporarily embarrassed Israel.
The Middle East is now just Israel and temporarily embarrassed Israel.
And a lot of very confused and out of place American military.
That was (ostensibly) in response to Syrian leadership going after the Druz, whom Israel needs to keep Syrian Muslims in check.
They’ve been playing this sectarian card for decades now. They only care about dividing Syria and weakening it regardless of who’s in charge.
With all eyes on Iran, Israel decided it was enough cover to try and conquer Lebanon again.
Hezbollah insurgents have started trying to retake parts of their country, with Israel focused on Iran.
The Israeli response has been to kill a bunch of civilians in retaliation.
This video is ANTI SEMETIC!
-The ADL, AIPAC, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, EVERY Republican!
Funny thing is most israelis arent even semites lol
And most arabs are
-Jonathan Greenblatt
Some analysis
Allegations he was targeted because he posted this yesterday
https://xcancel.com/SweeneySteve/status/2034700333000331742
He have video after hospital from 5 hours ago. What a day to be alive.Not saying this info is wrong but the fins on the bombs in those pictures look very different. I’m no bomb expert of course
That’s pretty much undeniably a mk82 warhead. Which are fitted with different tail sections and other guidance systems for whatever they want to be used for. If the report is correct in that it was a 200lb load with 300lbs of metal, that would be the mk82 mod 7. Which likely has a Israeli tail section made for low altitude deployment with high precision.
Dang I didn’t know they could swap parts like like
Going by the tail section (and lack of wings), it looks like this was a mk82 fitted with a Paveway II system, which would make sense given that this was likely intended to be used to demolish the bridge he’s standing on…
Paveway tail/nose for comparison
How do people know so much about bombs?
Missile autists
Lemmy has a crowd of experts and academics in certain fields, but also weird hobbyists that expertise themselves for fun on a certain topic. Sometimes they are the same person.
And it wasn’t always the case, but people love it when others geek out over their obscure hobby/obsession. A sign of life is much appreciated in the internet world these days.
In my case, autism. UXO/equipment identification is a hobby. If you think that’s weird you should see how weird I got when they let me poke around in the Southern Pacific 4294 cab…
I don’t gotta be an expert to know he’s talking about trains XD That’s awesome man I’m still trying to learn how to install arch on my own
The only thing Israel loves more than killing journalists, is killing children.
Their leader is a child killer, and the US leader is a child rapist. Talk about a match made in the deepest recesses of Hell.
You’re being really unfair. Trump very well could’ve also killed children.
Didn’t he already kill the 160 girls bombing a school?
Idk it’s maybe a tie for health care workers too.
Don’t forget women and the elderly.
And infants
That highly feels like it was targeted at him.
It was either targeted at him, or a double tap strike at the same place to kill medical personell if the first strike hit someone.
classic
I hate Israel as well, but you both appear to be wrong. It looks like they were just finishing taking out a bridge by hitting the last part that was still standing.
Not saying this is good, and I’m not defending Israel, but that’s what this strike was.
Blowing up bridges with shrapnel warheads. Sure.
Edit: since everyone thinks I’m a liar, I’m basing this info on OP’s comment in this post that added more info:
How in the world can you tell it is a “shrapnel warhead”. I’m no weapons expert (you obviously aren’t either), but I’m pretty positive most shrapnel warheads detonate well above the ground to pepper the target with shrapnel and have a much wider area of kill. This bomb clearly penetrated the road and exploded just like a high explosive warhead would, which is used to destroy buildings and bridges and whatnot.
Read the article
I do not see an article linked in this post, but again, if you look at the frame by frame, it’s not a shrapnel warhead, and whoever say it is does not know what they are talking about. It is a high explosive warhead that is designed to penetrate the object they are targeting and then explode from within to cause as much damage to the structure as possible. A shrapnel warhead would have little to no effect on a concrete and rebar structure.
My mistake, I was referring to the comment OP made with additional info. Take it or leave it I guess.
You were absolutely wrong. In the two frames, you can see the bomb just as it penetrates the roadway, and then the next frame shows the explosion is obviously happening from underneath
/inside of the bridge from the way the blast looks. You are bullshitting and don’t know what you’re talking about. And again, I’m no expert, but I clearly know more than you. This was a high explosive warhead not anything designed to create shrapnel as a primary goal. Obligatory fuck genocidal religious nut job Israel but making shit up doesnt help anyone and ruins the credibility of people spreading the lie.
I was basing it on the additional info posted by OP in the comments:
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/19696548
I guess you can take it or leave it
How can you tell? Genuinely interested as I thought the shrapnel was just blasted rubble.
I mean it definitely looks like a low bridge there’s railing on either side and the big hole in the center of it looks like a hole in a bridge.
This is very common in the Ukraine-Russian war where both sides launch multiple munitions across a bridge to take it fully down in the center.
You can also see all the rebar sticking up in the first hole, which definitely indicates it is a bridge and not a road. Roads don’t have rebar through them. Bridges do.
Oh thank you, I meant for the type of warhead.
Look at my other comment to prole, it’s absolutely not a “shrapnel warhead”. A warhead with shrapnel as its main design would detonate well above the ground and pepper the ground with shrapnel and would have little effect on a bridge.
It’s in the article
Ah,
shame on me.Edit: Wait, it’s a video, what article?
My bad I was referring to the comment OP made with more info:
Jfc, Israel just cant help but targeting innocent people, civilians, and the press are their prime targets
They were promised unlimited bloodshed of innocents 3000 years ago y’know
I don’t trust anyone who, after hearing the story of Abraham, still is like “yeah, more of that please!”
just cant help
This assumes that the bomb accidentally fell there. This was a targeted strike.
Not the way I worded it. I said they cant help but target innocent, civilians and journalists
Ah I see, I am just unfamiliar with the expression it seems.
No worries! Not sure why you got so many downvotes for a clear misunderstanding
I tend to downvote misunderstandings so that people realize that something is wrong with the statement
A terrorist state bombing the mouthpiece of another terrorist state.
Can’t say I’m overwhelmed with emotion
Nice way to justify murdering journalists.
Oh, did he get murdered?
You must be very disappointed he was not
What the fuck are you talking about, answer the question
Are murder attempts okay if they fail?
Is your ego so fragile that you cannot simply answer the question?
That’s because they don’t know the RT is a russian mouthpiece…that and there are a fuck ton of tankies here who think russia can do no wrong.
You’ve justified the murder of journalists, whether this one was murdered or not. It was attempted murder, which carries all of the intent of a successful murder. And we’re seeing the video precisely because of survivorship bias. The 300 or so other journalists the IDF have murdered in the last 2 years were not so lucky.
Give your head a wobble mate, you’re literally out here justifying the murder of press in war zones.
Give your head a wobble mate, you’re literally out here justifying the murder of press in war zones.
They won’t get it, the good-vs-bad is so rooted so deeply in their thought process that they don’t even realize it. At this point it’s just cheering for every death of a “bad guy”. It was bad when it started with celebrating the deaths of “terrorists”, then collateral damages started to be fine as well, as long as the target died too, and somehow we ended up here, where full on war crimes and genocides against civilians are okay, as long as they are the so-called bad guys or in the way of a mission against them.
It’s honestly sickening. They are all human beings, and we all bleed all the same. Just because someone’s been born in a Hezbollah-controlled shithole, or is working for an irrelevant Russian TV outlet, they don’t deserve to die, and it doesn’t make their death acceptable.
How incredibly disheartening that was to read
So no.
And no, I’m not justifying anything.
I could ask you to point to where you think I justify killing but what a waste of time it would be, asking questions to people so fucking deep in the political delirium.
Your first comment.
You don’t care he was bombed because he’s “the mouthpiece of a terrorist state”.
For fun, I just looked at headlines for this. Almost all of them mention Lebanon, only two mention Israel or IDF. Classic.
Well, why did Lebanon decide to place a country where bombs fall?
