Journalist From the Frontlines Responds to Israel’s Attempt to Assassinate Him on Camera
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What happened during Steve Sweeney's close encounter with an Israeli missile strike?
Last month, about two weeks ago, a British journalist called Steve Sweeney, who lives and works in Beirut, Lebanon, was in southern Lebanon attempting with a cameraman to document what the Israeli military is doing to the southern part of that country, which is leveling it, moving people wholesale out, including Christian villages across the area. And as he was preparing his report, he was targeted by an Israeli-owned American-made aircraft that fired a missile at him in an attempted assassination. Here's what it looked like.
Further rocket attacks were reported against Nahariya in a minute.
Fucking hell.
fuck that wasn't an accident it was intentional the jet that fired it had flown over his position attempting to assassinate him as the israeli government has assassinated on purpose not accidentally assassinated murdered so many journalists including western journalists trying to cover its atrocities atrocities that are spreading even now under the cover of the iran war a massive land grab across the region killing of Christians, desecration of Christian holy sites. That's all happening. It's all real. And one of the reasons you may not know about it is because the people trying to record it, to chronicle it, have been assassinated. But Steve Sweeney was not assassinated by luck or the grace of God.
How did the Israeli bombing impact St. Peter's burial site?
By a quirk of the landing of that missile, he survived. He joins us now to explain what happened. Steve, thanks very much for doing this. I'm grateful you're alive. Can you, we just played the tape of the moment where you were almost killed. Can you add context to that and describe what was happening?
Well, yeah, you've seen the footage. We were incredibly lucky to come out of that situation alive. It was only purely by luck that the missile ended up, as you've seen on the footage, it went through the hole and the bridge had already been destroyed. So just to give you some context of... why we were there.
What role does the British government play in the Israel-Palestine conflict?
Israel had issued these evacuation orders. It said that it was going to bomb every single bridge in South Lebanon. So the bridges across the Litani River. This connects the south of Lebanon to the rest of the country. So this was a hugely important news story. This is essentially cutting off you know, a whole swathe of the country. And they'd started the bombing the night before. It was a Thursday when we went to the bridge.
Why is Israel bulldozing olive trees in Lebanon?
On the Wednesday evening and into the early hours of the morning, they'd started targeting the bridges. So, you know, as a journalist and as a war correspondent, you know, we were there to report on this huge news story. So we drove down. This is in Sur District or Tyre District, as other people will probably better know it. and uh as we approached the lebanese army have a base there they um just just ahead of the bridge so we approached them and we said to them okay um is it safe to film and they assured us it was perfectly safe for us to to go on that bridge and they would know because if israel is about to bomb a bridge which they had already bombed it the night before then they would get a message to the um lebanese army via unifil the united nations peacekeepers they don't have direct communication
So there was no pre-warning that this bridge was about to be struck again. There was no military objective in striking the bridge again. It was already destroyed. You could barely even walk across it, let alone take a vehicle across it. So this was the Kazmir Bridge. This was the smaller bridge. So these kind of link villages and settlements in South Lebanon together. So, okay, we approached the bridge. We set up our camera. We started filming.
Is there more freedom in Russia compared to Britain?
There were fighter jets roaring overhead. And again, this isn't uncommon in the south of Lebanon, but we knew that the fighter jets were flying away from us. So they were roaring overhead, but they were heading further south and they were bombing what they would describe as Hezbollah positions around that area. So we weren't still unduly concerned and we went onto the bridge. And we started filming. So it wasn't live.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened during Steve Sweeney's close encounter with an Israeli missile strike?
0:04–1:47
2
How did the Israeli bombing impact St. Peter's burial site?
1:47–2:27
3
What role does the British government play in the Israel-Palestine conflict?
2:27–2:53
4
Why is Israel bulldozing olive trees in Lebanon?
2:53–4:08
5
Is there more freedom in Russia compared to Britain?
4:08–11:29
6
What are the implications of targeting journalists in conflict zones?
11:29–16:40
7
How has the narrative around Hezbollah and Israeli actions been shaped?
16:40–30:31
8
What does Steve Sweeney say about the historical debt of Britain to Lebanon?
30:31–1:04:30
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