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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-30T20:21:33.000Z",
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    "The GB News Editorial Charter",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nSky News came under fire today for its coverage of an Israeli strike that killed a Hezbollah-linked journalist.\n\nThe broadcaster has been criticised after it failed to disclose Ali Shoeib's alleged connection to the terrorist organisation, despite their footage showing Hezbollah flags at the funeral.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nShoeib, a reporter for the Hezbollah-owned channel Al Manar, along with Fatima Ftouni and her brother, cameraman Mohamed Ftouni, both from the pro-Hezbollah Al Mayadeen channel, were killed in the southern Lebanese town of Jezzine on Saturday.\n\nAn Israeli strike is said to have hit their car just before noon.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) confirmed they had killed Shoeib and Mohamed Ftouni.\n\nIn a report from the funeral, Sky News' special correspondent Alex Crawford said the trio had died in what she described as a \"targeted attack\" by the Israeli military.\n\n\"The killings of these three journalists have caused outrage in Lebanon,\" Mrs Crawford says in the clip.\n\nShe added the Lebanese government had labelled the incident a potential war crime and called on the UN Security Council to launch an investigation.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe report later stated an Israeli spokesman had \"attempted to justify\" the strike but had provided \"no evidence\" Shoeib was a member of Hezbollah.\n\nDespite this, a litany of Hezbollah flags were visible in the background of the footage, prompting critics to accuse the broadcaster of failing to acknowledge the journalists’ alleged links to the group.\n\nIsraeli research centre Alma claimed Shoeib was \"Hezbollah's 'in-house correspondent' in southern Lebanon\" who has been an \"active participant in Hezbollah’s propaganda campaign for at least 21 years\".\n\nMeanwhile, the IDF has long claimed Shoeib belonged to Hezbollah's elite Radwan Force.\n\nChannel Al-Manar was added to the United States' Terrorist Exclusion List in 2004.\n\n### LATEST DEVELOPMENTS\n\n\n\n\n  * Donald Trump weighs plan to steal uranium from Iran in explosive military operation\n  * 'Irreplaceable' US radar jet completely destroyed after Iranian strike on Saudi base\n  * Moscow kicks British diplomat out of Russia over spying charges\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nIn response, Mrs Crawford posted on X: \"Both reporters worked for pro-Hezbollah outlets. Journalists are not legitimate targets, regardless of the outlet they work for. They were doing their jobs as journalists and (should) have been protected under (international) law. Baseless claims are not justification for targeted killings.\"\n\nFootage shared by Mrs Crawford on social media later appeared to show one of the coffins at the funeral draped in a Hezbollah flag.\n\nFormer Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy responded online, writing: \"This 'Lebanese journalist' was buried in a coffin draped in a Hezbollah flag, surrounded by Hezbollah flags, as mourners chanted 'Death to America!'\n\n\"I know because I watched @AlexCrawfordSky’s reporting, which claims Israel hasn’t provided evidence he was in fact a terrorist.\"\n\nReplying, Mrs Crawford said \"journalists are not legitimate targets no matter how much you disagree with their views or outlet\".\n\nShe added: \"Lebanon's president Joseph Aoun and the Lebanese Minister of Information Paul Morcos denounced the killing of the journalists, with president Aoun calling the attack 'a blatant crime that violates all the norms and treaties under which journalists enjoy international protection in wars,'\"\n\nHezbollah condemned the strike as the \"deliberate criminal targeting of journalists\".\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\"The enemy's false claims are nothing but an expression of its weakness and fragility, and a desperate attempt to evade responsibility for this crime,\" the terrorist group said.\n\nAdam Levick, UK Media Research Manager at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis, said Shoeib’s work “for Hezbollah-owned Al Manar Network is indisputable, AS IS the fact that the segment itself was filmed at the Hezbollah military cemetery where Shoeib was buried, which, Crawford could clearly see, was festooned with Hezbollah flags, and included banners assuring Shoeib that he would 'find peace with Nasrallah.’”\n\n\"In the 15 years we've been monitoring British media coverage of Israel and the region, this is one of the most egregious examples of a mainstream outlet promoting propaganda that serves the interests of a proscribed terror group.\"\n\nSky News and Mrs Crawford have been contacted for comment.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Sky News under fire for failing to disclose killed Lebanese journalist's ties to Hezbollah"
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