13 October 2023, New York

Secretary-General’s brief press encounter following Security Council consultations on the situation in the Middle East 

Question: Secretary General, could we get a comment from you on the journalist in southern Lebanon who was struck? There was a Reuters journalist who was killed in southern Lebanon and several journalists from AFP and Al-Jazeera who were injured. 

Secretary-General: I want to say how much this demonstrates the enormous risk of spillover of this conflict, namely in relation to Lebanon. 

And I want to pay tribute to the journalists that so many, unfortunately, the largest number ever last year, so many journalists are paying with their lives. 

The work they do, to bring truth to everybody in the world and I present to their families my deepest condolences.   

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