According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, the following Lebanese and Israeli journalists have died along the Israeli-Lebanese border in addition to Assaf Abu Rahhal: Ahmed Haidar of Al-Manar died in 1993;[13] Ilan Roeh of Israeli radio died in 1999.[14] Layal Najib, a freelance photographer, died in the border dispute in 2006.[15] She was the last journalist to have been killed before Abu Rahhal.