James Stout

Throughout the country in Lebanon, the Israelis were attacking around the country, not Beirut, but in other parts of the country, particularly in the south.

And in the city of Sur, they bombed.

I was down there the other day and people were talking about what time the Israelis dropped their last bomb, whether it was 12 on the dot or 11.59 p.m.

or 11.57 p.m.

And so these are the conditions that essentially journalists and media workers are forced to live with on a daily basis.

I mean, it's wild how conscientious they are.

You know, they have to take every single minute to bomb their neighbors.

So, yeah, maybe tell us what the situation has been like for journalists in particular.

I imagine different parts of the country are struggling with maybe different challenges.

Yeah, this exists on a sliding scale.

Obviously, since 2023, the first week post-October 7, there was a Lebanese journalist by the name of Aysam Abdullah who was killed.

He was a Reuters photographer.

And that was a strike that wounded other journalists, including journalists from AFP and Al Jazeera.

So, I mean, it's been...

over two and a half years now that there has been a danger.

And that first strike that killed Aysam changed the way that media assesses risk in this country.

Since then, a number of other journalists have also been killed.

So in that sense, there still is a fear that targeting, you know, much like in Gaza, is a thing that happens.

Of course, in Gaza, it was way worse.

There was a way higher threat level.