They were killed in Hasbaya and taken to a nearby public hospital. Transported on three Lebanese Red Cross vehicles, they made their final departure from the South, bound for Al Zahraa Hospital University Medical Center in Beirut.
Heartbroken, Ghassan’s wife Sanaa, who is also a colleague at Al Mayadeen, said this was what he had always wished for. Ghassan, 48, a father of one, will be laid to rest on Saturday next to his colleague Rabih al-Maamari in Rawdat Al Shahidain instead of his hometown of Qaaqaaiyet El Jisr.
Mohammad Reda, age 55 and father of three daughters, had his body prayed over and temporarily laid to rest, with a burial planned in his hometown of Kfar Sir. Al Manar cameraman Wissam, a father of four, will be buried later in his hometown of Aita al-Shaab.
The Israeli airstrike that killed them while they slept—not as they preferred, standing and recording the destruction—also injured other journalists who were later hospitalized.