00:00 Around a dozen journalists from several media outlets were reporting in southern Lebanon
00:05 near the Israeli border Monday, when they were nearly hit by a strike.
00:18 The reporters started to flee when another strike hit just meters away.
00:23 We were told to evacuate the area quickly. Everyone is evacuating this place because
00:30 it is a dangerous area and the targeting of journalists. There is nothing deterring the
00:34 targeting so we are showing you the situation.
00:47 The incident comes exactly a month after strikes blamed on Israel killed a Reuters journalist
00:52 and injured six others in southern Lebanon.
00:55 In Monday's explosion, a photographer from Al Jazeera was lightly wounded.
00:59 The Al Jazeera bureau chief in Lebanon said the Israeli army deliberately targeted journalists.
01:05 The IDF has yet to comment.
01:07 Israel and Hezbollah have traded rocket fire for the past month, but recently the near-daily
01:12 border skirmishes have intensified.
01:14 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel is focusing on the war in Gaza,
01:20 but is prepared to fight on two fronts if necessary.
01:25 There are exchanges of fire in the north. There is someone who thinks they can widen
01:29 it, can widen attacks against our forces, against civilians. That's playing with fire.
01:34 Fire will be answered with much stronger fire. They shouldn't try us, because we've only
01:38 showed a small amount of our power.
01:42 Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah spoke on the weekend, boasting that the militant group
01:47 has begun to use suicide drones and heavy warheads. He stopped short, however, of declaring
01:52 a full-scale war on Israel.
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