Strikes on Journalists in South Lebanon

For Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch campaigns, Earshot conducted an audio analysis of the Israeli attack on a group of seven journalists in southern Lebanon on 13 October 2023, in which Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah was killed and six others injured.

Unmaned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Analysis:

Earshot could determine that the sound of an UAV was heard continuously for more than 40 minutes before the attack and that it circled the journalists' position at least 11 times. Our analysis suggests that the Israeli forces had sufficient information that it was journalists and civilians and not a military target.

Debris Analysis:

Earshot was able to determine from the sound of the explosion the direction in which the debris was travelling after the two explosions. This corroborated other evidence that the projectile that hit the journalists was fired from the south-east of their position.