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A Reuters videographer killed in Israeli shelling of southern Lebanon was laid to rest in his hometown of Khiam Saturday in a funeral procession attended by hundreds of people. Draped in a Lebanese flag, Issam Abdallah’s body was carried on a stretcher through the streets of the southern town, from his family’s home to the local cemetery. Dozens of journalists and Lebanese lawmakers attended the funeral.

Six other journalists were injured in a village in Lebanon when their position was shelled. Israel Defence Forces say they are investigating the incident.

Hundreds of Hamas gunmen stormed across the border from Gaza into Israel on Saturday, killing more than 1,300 people, most of them civilians, and seizing about 150 hostages.

France on Saturday urged the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia to stay out of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, expressing concern at the situation on the Lebanon-Israel border.Agence France-Presse on Saturday urged both Israeli and Lebanese authorities to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the firing along their border that killed and wounded journalists.

France's prestigious Bayeux War Correspondents' Awards picked out a clutch of writers and photographers Saturday for their work covering conflict in Haiti, Myanmar, the Mideast and Ukraine.British-Italian freelance photographer Siegfried Modola was honoured for his work which saw him clandestinely enter Myanmar, racked by unrest following a 2021 coup.