Syrian TV Reporter Killed near Qusayr
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
A reporter for Syrian state television has been killed while covering an army assault on the rebel stronghold of Qusayr, state media said on Monday.
"The ministry of information... announces that colleague Yara Abbas has been added to the ranks of the martyrs, killed by terrorists near Dabaa airport," north of Qusayr, state media said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog also reported the death of Abbas who worked for state television news channel Al-Ikhbariya, saying she "was killed by a sniper close to Dabaa airport".
The group said other members of Abbas's crew were wounded, without providing further details.
Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi, interviewed on Syrian television, described Abbas's death as "tragic" and called her a "martyr."
"This is a new sacrifice by the Syrian media so that Syria will remain and will return better than before," he said.
He expressed the hope that "Yara will be the last of the martyrs in a bleeding Syria".
"Yara was aware that she could die a martyr and she shed her blood for Syria," he added.
Before her death, Reporters sans Frontieres said 23 journalists had been killed in Syria since the beginning of the uprising in March 2011.
At least 58 citizen journalists have been killed in the conflict.
The Syrian army, backed by fighters from Lebanon's Hizbullah, began an assault on the rebel stronghold of Qusayr on Sunday May 19.
Both the rebels and the regime view the town in central Homs province as a key strategic prize, because it lies near the Lebanese border and by the road connecting Damascus to the coast.
27 May 2013, 12:57
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To Allah We Belong and To Him We Will Return. May Lord almighty rest her soul in peace and give strength to her family to bear this immense loss.
27 May 2013, 13:47
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We belong to no one and will return to no one. Tut Ankh Amoun was found in the same grave where he was buried four thousand years ago, he did not go anywhere. Their allah gave them the authority to treat women as a third class servants. God save Syria and Lebanon from those fossils. My daughter is a lawyer and executive over 200 men and women are all treated the same without discrimination .
27 May 2013, 14:46
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She perhaps should look like the Al Manar sexy female reporters. Maya Diab would be dressed like them if Hezbollah has their way with Lebanon.
27 May 2013, 16:56
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Mowaten - read human right organization reports on Syria. Most syrians hate the regime but do not want want a KSA or Iran model. Most want the freedom we have in Lebanon minus the sectarianism. Unfortunatelly, they got sectarianism and no freedom.
27 May 2013, 20:53
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shfaqna.com: shia international news... see how your sources are objective mowaten!!!... LOL
27 May 2013, 21:13
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seriousely Mowaten - These are your sources lol. No wonder you live in a different planet. Even you must admit that these are hardly reliable sources
27 May 2013, 21:43
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Hey loser, please provide more links to "Taqiya International News", it is very entertaining!
27 May 2013, 14:55
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She was bragging about killing the resistance fighters now came her turn. No feeling sorry here.
27 May 2013, 16:21
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Yara abbas does not wear hijab. Journalists have been killed covering both sides of conflict. With regard to argument below, there are women who wear hijab in both sunni and shia communities in and outside beirut.
27 May 2013, 16:23
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Reporters, women, children, civilians and even trees should be a red line in all wars. To bad that people violate moral aspects of war. I condemn her murder even though she had diffirent opinions. I am saddened for her. Wish people could leave non-combatants out of it.
27 May 2013, 18:03
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Rafeh, that changes nothing. She was a reporter. All the criminals fighting in qusayr and she is the threat or the one who deserves to be killed? No i disagree with that. If she had been a anti-regime reporter killed by shabbi7a, they too would be justifying it with the same excuses.
27 May 2013, 19:01
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Siyeseh - in the fog of battle, it would be impossible to have been able to tell that she is a reporter. She could also have been killed by a stray bullet as much of the firing in combat is innaccurate. Look, I may not like and and even though one hardly can consider her a reporter (propagandist - yes), I do not wish her death or then tens of thousands that fell so far.
27 May 2013, 16:25
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As for josh, he is an idiot and a bigot. He knows nothing and especially about the Baath he defends. He still does not answer how come the regime imprisoned, exiled or sentenced to death most of the founders of the hizb including its main intellectual driver Michel Aflak.
27 May 2013, 16:28
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I remember during 2006 war, people were saying the same silly things about shiite women. Talking about hairy bodies referring to the iranian origin of shiites etc. I thought it was stupid then just like your comment and it just goes to show once again that hezballah and their supporters like to pretend they are the moral ones with no hate etc for their fellows when in reality you guys are as a extreme as the extreme wahhabies.
27 May 2013, 16:50
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Also pictures showing her covering the war in military fatigue. http://www.alarabiya.net/ar/arab-and-world/syria/2013/05/27/4-جهات-إعلامية-رسمية-تنعي-صحفية-من-الإخبارية-السورية-.html
27 May 2013, 20:54
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there was also a french and many other journalists killed so what the fuss here, because she is baath? LOL!!!
27 May 2013, 21:11
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to hell with her! Who cares.... She was an instrument of regime propaganda
28 May 2013, 08:57
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Yea cry me a river over this HO... she was assisting in the killing of the Syrians so a sniper showed her the way!
