Reporters Without Borders (RSF) presented a report this Sunday in which it stated that Reuters news agency journalist Issam Abdallah, who died in a bombing in southern Lebanon on October 13, as well as six other correspondents who suffered injuries, They were taken as "targets", although he did not directly blame the Israeli Army. "Two bombardments of different intensities, with an interval of 37 to 38 seconds, hit on Friday, October 13, around 6 p.m., the place where a group of seven journalists had been for more than an hour," stationed on a route to cover rising tensions at the border, the report states. "The first bombing killed Reuters photojournalist Issam Abdallah and seriously injured AFP correspondent Christina Assi, while the second caused the Al Jazeera vehicle to explode (...), injuring several of her colleagues" , detailed RSF. The NGO did not directly question the Israeli army, but indicated that "according to the ballistic analysis commissioned by RSF, the area from which the shots came was to the east of the place where the group of journalists and their cars were targeted, where finds the border with Israel. Artillery duels between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, as well as attempts to infiltrate Palestinian commandos into Israel from that area, have multiplied since the attack by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Israeli territory on October 7. All members of the group wore helmets and vests with the inscription "Press", so "it is impossible for them to have been confused with combatants," one of the NGO's researchers explains in a video.