![]() ![]() Without directly addressing the death of Mr Abdallah, a ![]() Six other reporters were also wounded after Israel fired two shells in quick succession while the journalists were filming cross-border shelling. Reuters says its journalist, Issam Abdallah, was killed by an Israeli tank crew on 13 October. The Israeli military has said an incident in which a journalist in Lebanon was killed is under review, but claimed the incident took place in an "active combat zone". Still, it is "in itself not unreasonable", he says. He says it is reasonable if this situation went on for an hour or two, but it becomes unreasonable if this went on for several hours or overnight and the men were not given alternative clothing. The forces will hold them at gunpoint without getting too close and would strip them down to make sure they don't have an explosive strapped to them.Īt this point the suicide bomb would either blow up or they wouldn't have one, Clarke says. ![]() "They're up against people who are terrorists, as far as they're concerned," he says. He says this is what military forces do and British forces would do the same. We've been speaking to security and defence analyst Professor Michael Clarke for his take on the footage.Ĭlarke says "context is everything" and we don't know what happened before, how long this took place, or what happened afterwards. Earlier we mentioned a video has emerged appearing to show a group of Palestinian men being detained and stripped to their underwear with their hands tied behind their backs. ![]()
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