Ahmad Hariri
أحمد الحريري
Photojournalist and paramedic
Killed by Israel using an Airstrike
Killed by Israel on 22 May 2026
Links
- Israeli bombardment reduces buildings to craters in southern Lebanon
- Israel Is on a Killing Spree of Paramedics and Rescue Workers in Lebanon
Archivist Notes
Photojournalist and paramedic Ahmad Hariri was killed in a double-tap strike on Deir Qanoun el-Nahr as civil defence teams rushed to aid the wounded from a previous Israeli airstrike in the same place. Others killed in the attack include a Syrian child, a woman, and three paramedics: Ali Ghassani, Hussein Qasir, and Hussein Radwan Kassir.
His last text message to the local journalist group chat reported news from Deir Qanoun before he himself became the news.
The day before, he had been documenting the grief of a young man with Down syndrome who had lost 11 of his relatives in an Israeli airstrike in the same town.
The Lebanese Press Photographers’ Syndicate mourned Hariri, saying he was killed “while carrying out his professional and humanitarian duty.”
The Minister of Information, Paul Morcos, strongly condemned the attack, describing it as a “flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and of the protection of civilians as well as health and media workers.”
The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health also denounced, in a statement, Israel’s targeting of paramedics and journalists “who carry no weapons, but only emergency equipment necessary to carry out their humanitarian mission.”