Three years after Issam Abdallah was killed by Israeli forces, occupied areas of southern Lebanon are becoming increasingly inaccessible to the press
Published on: Monday 12 October 2026
Nearly three years after Reuters photojournalist Issam Abdallah was killed in southern Lebanon by an Israeli army strike that also injured six of his colleagues, the government of Benjamin Netanyahu continues to impose increasing restrictions on media professionals’ access to areas it now occupies. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounces these restrictions as an obstruction of the right to inform and calls for clarification of the procedures governing journalists' access to these areas.
News source: https://rsf.org/en/three-years-after-issam-abdallah-was-killed-israeli-forces-occupied-areas-southern-lebanon-are
