Hizbullah's Media Relations Office Condemns BBC For Sending Team Into Lebanese Villages With IDF As 'Violation Of Lebanon's Sovereignty'

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October 15, 2024

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On October 14, 2024, a Hizbullah-affiliated Telegram channel published a statement by Hizbullah's Media Relations Office condemning The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for dispatching a journalistic team accompanied by soldiers from the Israeli Defense Forces to villages in southern Lebanon, calling the step a violation of Lebanon's sovereignty.

The statement opens by stating that the BBC's reporting has not only been "blindly siding" with Israel, but also has justified Israel's "barbaric actions" against the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples. Furthermore, the BBC brazenly dispatched a journalistic team into Lebanon's southern villages accompanied by the Israeli Defense Forces, which the statement viewed as a "violation of Lebanon's sovereignty and applicable laws."

Hizbullah's Media Relations Office condemned the media tour as "unjustified and unethical," and demanded that the Ministry of Information, the National Media Council, and the relevant judicial and security authorities take the necessary legal measures against the BBC and its teams in Lebanon.

"We also demand that the unions of journalists, editors, and free media outlets in the world condemn this step," the statement concluded.

Subsequently, Hizbullah's Media Relations Office added to its initial statement, saying that the "outreach tour" organized by the IDF was also attended by other Western media representatives, including correspondents of The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Telegraph, Fox News, Reuters, The New York Times, The Financial Times, and The Associated Press, among others.

Hizbullah's Media Relations Office again condemned this "dangerous" and "unacceptable" behavior by news outlets and reiterated its demand that the relevant bodies take the necessary legal and political actions.


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