Beirut, January 27, 2026 – Lebanese journalist and Al-Manar TV presenter Ali Nour al-Din was killed on Monday, January 26, when an Israeli airstrike targeted a civilian vehicle on the outskirts of the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon. Two other civilians were injured in the attack, according to official Lebanese media reports.

Incident Details
According to available information, the Israeli air force carried out the strike amid ongoing military escalation in southern Lebanon, despite the ceasefire agreement that has been in effect since late November 2024.

Nour al-Din’s killing follows a similar incident on January 21 in the town of Qanaarit, where eight journalists were wounded while covering field developments. These incidents form part of a series of attacks that have increasingly placed media workers at risk in southern Lebanon.

Broader Context
Since October 2023, journalists in both Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territory have been operating under unprecedented security threats. In Gaza, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate has documented the killing of more than 260 journalists, along with the deaths of 706 family members of journalists, in what it describes as a systematic pattern of pressure and retaliation. Violations against journalists have also been widely recorded in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

In Lebanon, at least 13 journalists and media workers have been killed since the escalation began, with dozens more injured and significant material damage reported. Israeli warplanes continue to conduct intensive airstrikes across Lebanese territory, repeatedly violating the ceasefire agreement.

According to the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, more than 1,036 ceasefire violations have been recorded in the past three months alone, prompting the government to submit a formal complaint to the UN Security Council. Since 2023, Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed more than 4,000 people and injured approximately 17,000, according to official data.

Legal and Human Rights Assessment
Women Journalists Without Chains strongly condemns the killing of Ali Nour al-Din and considers the attack part of a broader pattern of violations against journalists.

Under international humanitarian law, journalists are civilians and are protected from attack under the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocol I, which require parties to armed conflict to distinguish between civilians and combatants. The attack also constitutes a breach of UN Security Council Resolution 2222 (2015), which calls for the protection of journalists in conflict situations.

Where such attacks are deliberate or indiscriminate, they may amount to war crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, giving rise to international criminal responsibility.

Call to Action
Women Journalists Without Chains calls on:

•    All parties to the conflict to immediately cease attacks on journalists and media workers and to respect international humanitarian law;

•    The United Nations and relevant international mechanisms to intensify monitoring and documentation of violations against journalists in Lebanon;

•    Independent, impartial, and transparent investigations to be launched into all attacks on journalists, with a view to ensuring accountability;

•    States to take effective measures to guarantee the safety of journalists and uphold the right to freedom of expression.

The organization warns that continued international silence in the face of these violations risks enabling further attacks and undermining press freedom and the public’s right to access information.