Lebanon said it had submitted a complaint to the United Nations Security Council over an Israeli strike last week that killed three journalists in the country’s south, AFP reports.

The strike early on Friday hit a complex in the Druze-majority town of Hasbaya in south Lebanon where more than a dozen journalists from Lebanese and Arab media outlets were sleeping. The Israeli army said that the strike was “under review”, maintaining it had targeted Hezbollah militants.

Lebanon submitted “a complaint to the Security Council regarding the latest Israeli attacks that targeted journalists and media facilities in Hasbaya in south Lebanon, and the Ouzai area” in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a statement from the foreign ministry said on social media platform X.

“The repeated Israeli targeting of media crews is a war crime” and Israel must be “held to account and punished”, the statement added.