Israel army ‘very sorry’ for journalist’s death

JERUSALEM—The Israeli army said Saturday it was “very sorry” for the death of a Reuters journalist killed when caught up in cross-border shelling along the frontier with Lebanon.

“We are very sorry for the journalist’s death,” military spokesman Richard Hecht told reporters when asked about the killing of the Reuters videographer on Friday.

The Israeli military did not acknowledge responsibility, however.

“We are looking into it,” Hecht said of the incident in which six other journalists, including two from AFP, were also injured.

A senior military commander of Hamas who headed the Islamist group’s aerial operations in Gaza City has been killed in Israeli air strikes, the military also said Saturday.

Murad Abu Murad was killed over the past day when fighter jets struck an operational center of Hamas from where the group carried out its “aerial activity”, the military said. There was no immediate confirmation from Hamas.