He is injured but not dead
It’s ok guys, the missile just happened to safely “land” in the area, by chance, “next to” the guy, who is only a “presenter”, not a journalist . There’s definitely no war crime to see here.
Our “Journalists”, their “Presenters”
History is written by the victors. This realization has made me question every version of history I have ever been taught
As moral compasses adjust over time, it has become clear that almost everyone that made it into history books was an asshole. And the ones that weren’t might have only been that way because they died too soon or history had gaps.
Israel definitely didn’t try to kill this journalist or the 300 journalists they successfully killed in the last 2.5 years.
Ahh the BBC, Pinnacle of using soft language (*passive voice is what I meant here) to describe war crimes
Only when Israel is the perpetrator. This is the NYT, but the BBC does the same thing.
Yuuuup. Almost like there’s a lot of powerful people worldwide that rely on propaganda to not just obfuscate their horrifyingly immoral acts, but create a culture where these acts are permissible when discovered.
Think about how the news used passive voice to never use the word rape or torture to describe what the epstein elite were doing to children, despite it being clearly laid out in front of our eyes.
Same thing happening in Gaza, Lebanon, Sudan, West Papua, and now Iran, in a non exhaustive but exhausting list of countries where the west is funding and arming genocides in the name of “Spreading democracy” (Stealing Natural Resources ) while the news stations softly softly their way around talking points.
what a chad. may he continue to evade bombs for a long time
Didn’t really evade this bomb though, did he? Someone said it struck in the crack there and exploded in there, which was very lucky for them. Otherwise, smithereens.
Being a journalist in range of Israel isn’t the safest of occupations.
No kidding.
The Gaza war has become the deadliest conflict for journalists in history, with reports indicating that Israeli actions killed over 180 to more than 270 journalists, mostly Palestinians, between October 2023 and August 2025.
Israel is openly targeting journalists. The IDF have shot anyone with MEDIA on their body. they have been since the Oct 7 attacks. Israel does not want their genocide or war crimes exposed, so they actively (and encourage) soldiers to target media.
And now the USA has sided with this regime to kill more civilians in Iran.
For comparison’s sake, I wonder what Iran’s numbers are like.
Some analysis
Allegations he was targeted because he posted this yesterday
https://xcancel.com/SweeneySteve/status/2034700333000331742
He have video after hospital from 5 hours ago. What a day to be alive.Not saying this info is wrong but the fins on the bombs in those pictures look very different. I’m no bomb expert of course
That’s pretty much undeniably a mk82 warhead. Which are fitted with different tail sections and other guidance systems for whatever they want to be used for. If the report is correct in that it was a 200lb load with 300lbs of metal, that would be the mk82 mod 7. Which likely has a Israeli tail section made for low altitude deployment with high precision.
Dang I didn’t know they could swap parts like like
Going by the tail section (and lack of wings), it looks like this was a mk82 fitted with a Paveway II system, which would make sense given that this was likely intended to be used to demolish the bridge he’s standing on…
Paveway tail/nose for comparison
How do people know so much about bombs?
Missile autists
In my case, autism. UXO/equipment identification is a hobby. If you think that’s weird you should see how weird I got when they let me poke around in the Southern Pacific 4294 cab…
I don’t gotta be an expert to know he’s talking about trains XD That’s awesome man I’m still trying to learn how to install arch on my own
Lemmy has a crowd of experts and academics in certain fields, but also weird hobbyists that expertise themselves for fun on a certain topic. Sometimes they are the same person.
Either way it’s clearly different surroundings, and the missile in the video goes into a crater where a previous missile hit, while this still shows a missile hitting flat terrainEdit: silly me, it’s just zoomed in. And the rocket hits a little farther back from the crater, not in the existing crater.
Any world leader and politician not calling out israel government is evil and lying to people.
Life under capitalism, where 95% of your leaders are trying to think of better ways to exploit you.
The only thing Israel loves more than killing journalists, is killing children.
Their leader is a child killer, and the US leader is a child rapist. Talk about a match made in the deepest recesses of Hell.
You’re being really unfair. Trump very well could’ve also killed children.
Didn’t he already kill the 160 girls bombing a school?
Don’t forget women and the elderly.
And infants
Idk it’s maybe a tie for health care workers too.
Ok, but I think we can all admit child detectives are neither cute nor amusing.
And they would have gotten away with it too! If it weren’t for those meddling kids and their mangy dog!
IRL version:
Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy were never seen or heard from again.
Jfc, Israel just cant help but targeting innocent people, civilians, and the press are their prime targets
They were promised unlimited bloodshed of innocents 3000 years ago y’know
I don’t trust anyone who, after hearing the story of Abraham, still is like “yeah, more of that please!”
Well gentiles (non-jewish) are like animals, according to some rabbi’s
just cant help
This assumes that the bomb accidentally fell there. This was a targeted strike.
Not the way I worded it. I said they cant help but target innocent, civilians and journalists
Ah I see, I am just unfamiliar with the expression it seems.
No worries! Not sure why you got so many downvotes for a clear misunderstanding
I tend to downvote misunderstandings so that people realize that something is wrong with the statement
As the OP said: “just can’t help but” is a negation of what you quoted.
It’s like saying they “can’t not target [innocents]”
For fun, I just looked at headlines for this. Almost all of them mention Lebanon, only two mention Israel or IDF. Classic.
Almost the exact same spot as one before and nothing there but him…
the old one two attack, its done to target aid workers and whatnot.
And the bridge that was still standing.
I doubt he was specifically targeted, since the margin of the miss was too large. But the ones doing the bombing knew he was there and went ahead to bomb the bridge anyway.
Actually Israel is known to use a double tap bombing method that waits until reporters and aid shows up to the original site and then they strike it again to take out additional people to make it harder to respond to the next attack.
Also this was a cluster munition bomb ment to shoot shrapnel out, the goal is to just hit solid ground to make it explode sideways, they just happened to double tap exactly the same spot and there was a cavity under the road.
From the stills it looks like a standard mk82 with a guidance kit. It lacks the longetudenal slits that cluster munition bodies have. Also cluster munitions deploy their bomblets about 50-150m before they hit the ground, otherwise they don’t get distribution.
It looks more like they dropped a followup bomb on a bridge that was not destroyed by the first bomb. Its a common practice for low urgency targets.
Especially considering it hit the same crater. Those bombs are accurate to about 1m, so that is not unusualy to hit almost the same spot.
I still think they just did not care he was there. If they were targeting him, it would have hit him.
True I don’t think they were targeting him specifically but they were targeting the professions of who shows up after the first hit. They seemingly want a couple professions caught in the crossfire. And its ones that is a crime to target.
Also that is still incredibly lazy with expensive munitions to not calculate the strike to actually hit again a weak point but to just send it on the same trajectory and hope it blows up enough to get the job done.
This video is ANTI SEMETIC!
-The ADL, AIPAC, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, EVERY Republican!
Funny thing is most israelis arent even semites lol
And most arabs are
-Jonathan Greenblatt
I heard this on the radio, it sounds so bad.
Thank goodness they didn’t double tap him.
So, will Keir Starmer comment on this or is his mouth too busy wrapped around Netanyahu’s dick?!
Any moment now.
Why am I not surprised that it is Israel that makes such mistakes?
Once is a mistake, twice maybe, 738363727th time surely aint a mistake. These fuckers just like killing people for no reason.
It’s not for no reason. They do it to hide their ethnic cleansing and illegal expansionism.
Oy im out of date. When did israel started attacking lebanon and why?
They have been attacking Lebanon every day since the “ceasefire” with Hezbollah.
If you want something even crazier, Israel just bombed Syria who is not even involved in any of this and even helps Israel.
The Middle East is now just Israel and temporarily embarrassed Israel.
The Middle East is now just Israel and temporarily embarrassed Israel.
And a lot of very confused and out of place American military.
That was (ostensibly) in response to Syrian leadership going after the Druz, whom Israel needs to keep Syrian Muslims in check.
They’ve been playing this sectarian card for decades now. They only care about dividing Syria and weakening it regardless of who’s in charge.
With all eyes on Iran, Israel decided it was enough cover to try and conquer Lebanon again.
Hezbollah insurgents have started trying to retake parts of their country, with Israel focused on Iran.
The Israeli response has been to kill a bunch of civilians in retaliation.
