Gunshots fired at al-Jadeed TV after Molotov attack

Unknown assailants fired gunshots after midnight toward al-Jadeed TV building in Beirut’s Wata el-Msaitbeh area, around 24 hours after a Molotov bomb was hurled at the station’s premises, the TV network said on Wednesday.

“The shots fired in the vicinity of the building were heard across the area and security forces have launched an investigation,” al-Jadeed said.

Authorities are “carrying out a comprehensive combing of al-Jadeed’s building and the neighboring buildings in search of bullet marks,” the TV network added.

The station’s public relations director Ibrahim al-Halabi meanwhile warned that “this attack might subject the neighboring buildings to harm, not only the station’s building.”

The incidents are believed to be linked to an uproar over a recent comedy segment aired on al-Jadeed that was deemed offensive to southerners and southern women.