This is not the first time journalists have been killed in this ongoing confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah that began over a year ago. There have been at least three other incidents involving journalists being attacked and killed, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from Beirut, Lebanon.

One of them was a Reuters news agency photographer, Issam Abdallah, who was killed by Israeli shelling last October.

An investigation by the news agency found that he was killed by Israel. Amnesty International said there should be an investigation into that killing because six other journalists were wounded. They were on a hill close to the border, clearly marked and visible as journalists.

But such international investigations have not taken place. The feeling here among journalists is that there has been no accountability and justice.

In November last year, two journalists working for Al Mayadeen channel were also killed. The night before the attack on Hasbaiyya, the office of Al Mayadeen was hit in an Israeli strike in the heart of Beirut. That office was evacuated, but it was seen as a message to journalists and the media that Israel is expanding its targets.