He is injured but not dead
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.
Thank goodness they didn’t double tap him.
Jfc, Israel just cant help but targeting innocent people, civilians, and the press are their prime targets
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]”
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
Some analysis
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
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.
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?
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.
And it wasn’t always the case, but people love it when others geek out over their obscure hobby/obsession. A sign of life is much appreciated in the internet world these days.
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
Missile autists
RT journalist so it’s hard to believe. Or could have been staged. The way they describe the bomb and the “good luck” it didn’t kill anyone
Yeah, because it matters which journalist is targeted. The good guys are obviously allowed to target journalists of the bad guys.
You are an absolute fucking retard, just as anyone agreeing with this stupid ass take. He and his team are fucking civilians. They are not legitimate targets.
They’re a mouth piece for Russian propaganda, and as much as Israel can go fuck itself, they literally told people they were targeting the bridge and finishing up the road destruction. Even fired warnings shots…this guy is a known propagandists for russia.
Oh, my bad, right. Ignoring collateral civilians isn’t a war crime, because obviously they’ve been warned to fuck off. This is an amazing concept for journalism, you just tell any journalist that is uncomfortable for you to get away or they die, and if they don’t, you just kill them. Isn’t that great?
Civilians are not a legitimate target, without exceptions.
as much as Israel can go fuck itself, they literally told people they were targeting the bridge and finishing up the road destruction"
“Fuck israel, but actually no”. If the same clip would’ve been from the Ukraine with a Russian shell in the background, you would be protesting the fucking ICC already.
You’re a bootlicking asshole, excusing war crimes with pathetic double standards. Fuck you, and everyone coming up with that unhinged argument of “It’s not a crime if the good guys done it”, “it’s not a crime if the victim was a bad guy”, or both at the same time. Fuck you, and your moral pseudo hight ground. People like you are part of the reason that the US and their Israeli buddies can invade, genocide and cripple whole countries with close to zero backlash and with zero consequences.
Oh, my bad, right. Ignoring collateral civilians isn’t a war crime, because obviously they’ve been warned to fuck off. This is an amazing concept for journalism, you just tell any journalist that is uncomfortable for you to get away or they die, and if they don’t, you just kill them. Isn’t that great? Civilians are not a legitimate target, without exceptions.
Are…are you ok? You do know how wars work, legitimate or not ones. You target infrastructure, that’s what Israel was doing here. This idiot knows where they were going to be bombing, and set up near it. This isn’t journalism.
“Fuck israel, but actually no”. If the same clip would’ve been from the Ukraine with a Russian shell in the background, you would be protesting the fucking ICC already.
It’s just Ukraine.
Russia doesn’t announce that it’s going to bomb a bridge, or location. They just hit civilian apartments.
You’re a bootlicking asshole, excusing war crimes with pathetic double standards. Fuck you, and everyone coming up with that unhinged argument of “It’s not a crime if the good guys done it”, “it’s not a crime if the victim was a bad guy”, or both at the same time. Fuck you, and your moral pseudo hight ground. People like you are part of the reason that the US and their Israeli buddies can invade, genocide and cripple whole countries with close to zero backlash and with zero consequences.
The actual fuck are you on? Israel needs to be de-armed and basically neutered, but so does Russia and it propaganda machine. Get off your podium kid, nothing I have ever said has been in support for Israel or the US wars.
Are…are you ok? You do know how wars work, legitimate or not ones. You target infrastructure, that’s what Israel was doing here. This idiot knows where they were going to be bombing, and set up near it. This isn’t journalism.
Again, fuck you and your arrogance. You know who’s mouthpiecing for who, what strikes have been called where and by whom, and seemingly everything else. Obviously, there isn’t a chance that Israel could’ve lied about that and deliberately striking this guy as claimed, since the Israeli government and IDF have proven to not misreport anything and they have never deliberately targeted civilians, journalists, medical personnel, or other persons of interests. Even the OHCHR stated concerns about the excessive bombings on infrastructure in Lebanon and the impact on civilians, potentially considering those as a war crime. Israeli officials threatened to do the same razing to Lebanon as they did in Gaza, and already started to do the same mass displacement orders (also a war crime btw), but they are just warning them to fuck off before they bomb the shit out of them, so that’s all fine, right?
And what is journalism then? Broadcasting from a luxury hotel far away claiming all is well? Those people risk their life to show what’s actually happening, and that’s exactly why they are protected.
So yeah, I seem to be more okay than you, at least I’m not excusing war crimes and accepting civilian casualties.
Get off your podium kid, nothing I have ever said has been in support for Israel or the US wars.
And yet you’re excusing obvious fucking war crimes. Keep lying to yourself and get back to that delicious boot.
Again, fuck you and your arrogance. You know who’s mouthpiecing for who, what strikes have been called where and by whom, and seemingly everything else.
The fuck are you on about? It sounds like you’re just shouting at the wind. Lol you must not be able to read, or research shit.
Obviously, there isn’t a chance that Israel could’ve lied about that and deliberately striking this guy as claimed, since the Israeli government and IDF have proven to not misreport anything and they have never deliberately targeted civilians, journalists, medical personnel, or other persons of interests.
Dude is literally standing in an existing warning shot crater with the bridge in the background…use your eyes for once, and not your mouth. You seem to be real good at trying to make up silly arguments…
Even the OHCHR stated concerns about the excessive bombings on infrastructure in Lebanon and the impact on civilians, potentially considering those as a war crime. Israeli officials threatened to do the same razing to Lebanon as they did in Gaza, and already started to do the same mass displacement orders (also a war crime btw), but they are just warning them to fuck off before they bomb the shit out of them, so that’s all fine, right?
At what point did I say it was ok? Please please show me where I stated what Israel is doing is ok?
And what is journalism then? Broadcasting from a luxury hotel far away claiming all is well? Those people risk their life to show what’s actually happening, and that’s exactly why they are protected.
Knowing that an area is going to be bombed before hand to get views is not journalism…and it’s quite hilarious that you’re simping for RT… assuming you got a little tankie in you.
So yeah, I seem to be more okay than you, at least I’m not excusing war crimes and accepting civilian casualties.
Yea cause that’s what I was doing lol, you must have slept through school to be that bad at reading comprehension.
And yet you’re excusing obvious fucking war crimes. Keep lying to yourself and get back to that delicious boot.
Lol as I said kid, please show me where I have excused what Israel is doing lol
At what point did I say it was ok? Please please show me where I stated what Israel is doing is ok?
Your initial post was “they fired warning shots, he still went there it’s his fault”, I called you out on that. You doubled down with:
Are…are you ok? You do know how wars work, legitimate or not ones. You target infrastructure, that’s what Israel was doing here. This idiot knows where they were going to be bombing, and set up near it. This isn’t journalism.
You are literally dismissing any argument with “They targeted infrastructure, which is fine, and the journalist is at fault for being there”
and it’s quite hilarious that you’re simping for RT… assuming you got a little tankie in you.
Let’s go, you also need to call me a snowflake for your retard bingo card. Should’ve thought you’re a fucking American. Saying a journalist is a human being and has his human rights is simping for RT and being a tankie. You have lost any respect and value of a human life, like most of the US unfortunately.
I’m fucking done wasting time with this bipolar shit. You’re doubling and tripling down into points claiming that you’re not making those points, and you’re not interested in anything else than making your own point anyways, so whatever lol
You don’t use shrapnel warheads to blow up infrastructure.
I only get my news from trusted CIA cutouts owned by billionaire oligarchs
It’s possible to dislike propaganda irrespective of who is dishing it out.
What news source, pray tell, is not propaganda?
The best today are a short list of YouTube channels. Truly independent investigative journalists are a rare treasure these days.
This, I agree with
There are many that don’t exist exclusively to push the narrative their owners want to get out there, don’t be so obtuse.
That claim is ridiculous. Name a single one
AP, Reuters, BBC World Service.
There’s three.
And you think all three of those are meaningfully independent from the anglo-american military/espionage cartel?
How in the actual hell do you stage a mk82 slamming into the ground?
What did RT roll up to the Russian AirForce and ask them to fly all the way to Lebanon to drop the equivalent payload behind a staged reporter and hope he survives?
That’s a bit of a dumb question, although I seriously doubt this was fabricated. Aside from the video effects software we’ve used for decades to create exactly this sort of footage, just look at the front page of reddit to see the effect that broad access to AI video editing tools has caused. Footage is easier than it has ever been to fake these days, and as a result we have to rely on the credibility of the source. RT has zero credibility in general, but in this case they don’t have a history of outright fabricating footage (just lying about the source, content, location, etc.) so I doubt this is fake.
However, it does throw into question his claims that they were never warned or that he was directly targeted - that strike makes plenty of sense and is directly on target if they’re trying to demolish that bridge, and very little sense if they were using a laser guided munition to kill him. That landed wayyy out of the CEP for a Paveway II, so either the pilot missed intentionally or… they’re trying to extend the initial damage to disable the bridge.
For fun, I just looked at headlines for this. Almost all of them mention Lebanon, only two mention Israel or IDF. Classic.
Well, why did Lebanon decide to place a country where bombs fall?
Does it maybe seem like the pilot intentionally missed, though–disobeying orders? Isn’t this like missing an ant?
If you mean missing an ant with a gun, then maybe. But it doesn’t look deliberate, and the explosion could have killed them anyway
They can target specific buildings in a group. They put that bomb exactly where they wanted to. He was targeted.
The one I responded to assumed he was missed on purpose, I don’t argue he was not targeted, I argue it’s practically impossible to miss him by so little on purpose and not make him die in the explosion at the same time
Valid. I also heard that they didn’t really target him, they targeted his truck, but still, you target anything near people, and they are at great risk of shrapnel injuries if you don’t get entirely blown up, and reportedly this journalist was injured by shrapnel. I don’t know how he could have avoided it by anything but sheer luck.
it supposedly was shrapnel munition, so you want to hit closeby but not necessarily on the target. But the bomb went through the hole and exploded in the canal under the street which is what saved his life. I see no reason to give an IOF stormtrooper the benefit of the doubt. They wanted to kill him, but accidentaly bungled it simple as.
It’s in the exact same spot as a previous strike. It’s called a “double tap” attack, and it’s a war crime.
The guy only survived because the bomb went off inside the crater from a previous strike, he would’ve been turned into powder if that had exploded in the surface.Right, but how do you screw that up? Isn’t targeting computer controlled, or no?
To a degree it is, but target selection is (or should be - there are reports of the IDF using AI to designate targets, which is a whole nother omnishambles) done by human hand. If there is a group of people inside the lethality radius of your bomb, then you are designating them as targets.
Not sure I understood exactly what you’re asking?I’m asking how you miss like 2 or 3 people with a damn missile and modern targeting.
So, will Keir Starmer comment on this or is his mouth too busy wrapped around Netanyahu’s dick?!
Any moment now.
A terrorist state bombing the mouthpiece of another terrorist state.
Can’t say I’m overwhelmed with emotion
Nice way to justify murdering journalists.
Oh, did he get murdered?
You must be very disappointed he was not
What the fuck are you talking about, answer the question
Are murder attempts okay if they fail?
Is your ego so fragile that you cannot simply answer the question?
That’s because they don’t know the RT is a russian mouthpiece…that and their are a fuck ton of tankies here who think russia can do no wrong.
You’ve justified the murder of journalists, whether this one was murdered or not. It was attempted murder, which carries all of the intent of a successful murder. And we’re seeing the video precisely because of survivorship bias. The 300 or so other journalists the IDF have murdered in the last 2 years were not so lucky.
Give your head a wobble mate, you’re literally out here justifying the murder of press in war zones.
So no.
And no, I’m not justifying anything.
I could ask you to point to where you think I justify killing but what a waste of time it would be, asking questions to people so fucking deep in the political delirium.
Your first comment.
You don’t care he was bombed because he’s “the mouthpiece of a terrorist state”.
Give your head a wobble mate, you’re literally out here justifying the murder of press in war zones.
They won’t get it, the good-vs-bad is so rooted so deeply in their thought process that they don’t even realize it. At this point it’s just cheering for every death of a “bad guy”. It was bad when it started with celebrating the deaths of “terrorists”, then collateral damages started to be fine as well, as long as the target died too, and somehow we ended up here, where full on war crimes and genocides against civilians are okay, as long as they are the so-called bad guys or in the way of a mission against them.
It’s honestly sickening. They are all human beings, and we all bleed all the same. Just because someone’s been born in a Hezbollah-controlled shithole, or is working for an irrelevant Russian TV outlet, they don’t deserve to die, and it doesn’t make their death acceptable.
The only thing Israel loves more than killing journalists, is killing children.
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.
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
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.
Israel definitely didn’t try to kill this journalist or the 300 journalists they successfully killed in the last 2.5 years.
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.
Ahh the BBC, Pinnacle of using soft language 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.
He’s a British man, but he was working for the Russian state-controlled media organization Russia Today. So, I don’t think you can really call him a “journalist” anymore.
He is still literally a journalist whether you like it or not. FOX News says their content is entertainment, but I wouldn’t bring that point up if one of their reporters was violently targeted in their line of work.
No, he’s not a journalist. He’s a propagandist working for the Russian government.
Propagandist is your opinion. He’s a journalist because of the press pass that he’s holding, that’s why I used the literally signifier.
"Netanyahu had a warm relationship and “personal friendship” with Russian president Vladimir Putin. In his 2022 book, Netanyahu wrote positively about Putin and describes him as “smart, sophisticated and focused on one goal – returning Russia to its historical greatness”
A propagandist can be a journalist, a teacher, a doctor etc. You don’t bomb unarmed people you disgusting peace of trash
You don’t bomb unarmed people you disgusting peace of trash
Because I noted that he’s a propagandist, you think I supported his being bombed? That’s all you, my friend. I said nothing about that.
Who are you tring to fool scum
Wow, you’re really stupid, huh?
You may not realize this, but being a journalist provides him with protections. As a journalist he should not be a target, same as a medic. No matter whose side he is on, he is not a target. By attempting to strip him of this title, you would also be stripping him of his legal protection from military targeting.
Most people agree that journalists (even “enemy” journalists) should not be targeted by weapons, for what should be fairly obvious moral reasons.
I hope you understand now why you are experiencing such a huge level of disagreement here.
I think I’ve missed the part where he said it’s okay to bomb unarmed people, can you point it out?
journalists are protected under international humanitarian law in war zones by saying he is not a journalist he is alluding that that person deserve to die for being a propagandist
If he had been working for the British state-controlled media organization the British Broadcasting Corporation, would you still call him a journalist?
Yes, because the BBC hasn’t been caught repeatedly coordinating with state intelligence services to spread disinformation, setting up astroturf campaigns to spread misinformation, funnelling money to “influencers” to destabilize governments, secretly operating media outlets under other names in other countries, etc.
Ok, so double standards it is, then. You like the BBC, so you ignore all the shady shit they do, but you don’t like RT so you highlight their problems, and hold both to different standards.
You need to read about critical thinking. It will make your world a much less confusing place.“The shady shit they do”?
Do tell.
Irrelevant. The point is that you believe you get to decide, based on some convenient criteria of your own choosing,which news outlets can call their workers journalists, and which ones will be classed as propagandists and therefore lose the right to safety from military strikes.
Effectively you think you should get the power of life and death over people who are putting their lives at risk to report from war zones.
You are a coward, decreeing all this from behind an anonymous profile on the Internet.C’mon, do tell.
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It is ok to kill him then
No
He should have been in an IDF tank with full Israeli censor over the content instead of on the front lines getting bombed by Israel. That is what real “journalism” looks like.
Yeah he’s a propagandist. But him getting bombed is still a WTF moment.
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.
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.
For comparison’s sake, I wonder what Iran’s numbers are like.
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.
That highly feels like it was targeted at him.
It was either targeted at him, or a double tap strike at the same place to kill medical personell if the first strike hit someone.
classic
I hate Israel as well, but you both appear to be wrong. It looks like they were just finishing taking out a bridge by hitting the last part that was still standing.
Not saying this is good, and I’m not defending Israel, but that’s what this strike was.
Blowing up bridges with shrapnel warheads. Sure.
How can you tell? Genuinely interested as I thought the shrapnel was just blasted rubble.
It’s in the article
Ah,
shame on me.Edit: Wait, it’s a video, what article?
My bad I was referring to the comment OP made with more info:
I mean it definitely looks like a low bridge there’s railing on either side and the big hole in the center of it looks like a hole in a bridge.
This is very common in the Ukraine-Russian war where both sides launch multiple munitions across a bridge to take it fully down in the center.
You can also see all the rebar sticking up in the first hole, which definitely indicates it is a bridge and not a road. Roads don’t have rebar through them. Bridges do.
Oh thank you, I meant for the type of warhead.
Look at my other comment to prole, it’s absolutely not a “shrapnel warhead”. A warhead with shrapnel as its main design would detonate well above the ground and pepper the ground with shrapnel and would have little effect on a bridge.
How in the world can you tell it is a “shrapnel warhead”. I’m no weapons expert (you obviously aren’t either), but I’m pretty positive most shrapnel warheads detonate well above the ground to pepper the target with shrapnel and have a much wider area of kill. This bomb clearly penetrated the road and exploded just like a high explosive warhead would, which is used to destroy buildings and bridges and whatnot.
Read the article
I do not see an article linked in this post, but again, if you look at the frame by frame, it’s not a shrapnel warhead, and whoever say it is does not know what they are talking about. It is a high explosive warhead that is designed to penetrate the object they are targeting and then explode from within to cause as much damage to the structure as possible. A shrapnel warhead would have little to no effect on a concrete and rebar structure.
You were absolutely wrong. In the two frames, you can see the bomb just as it penetrates the roadway, and then the next frame shows the explosion is obviously happening from underneath
/inside of the bridge from the way the blast looks. You are bullshitting and don’t know what you’re talking about. And again, I’m no expert, but I clearly know more than you. This was a high explosive warhead not anything designed to create shrapnel as a primary goal. Obligatory fuck genocidal religious nut job Israel but making shit up doesnt help anyone and ruins the credibility of people spreading the lie.
I was basing it on the additional info posted by OP in the comments:
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/19696548
I guess you can take it or leave it
