As part of a nine-day offensive against a key critical rebel-occupied town, Syrian troops partook in a gunfight with insurgents killing a reporter and injuring a cameraman and his assistant.
Yara Abbas, a well-known reporter for the publicly-owned TV station, Al-Ikhabariyah, was gunned down by rebel forces on Monday near the Lebanese border, in the town of Qusair close to the Dabaa military air base.
Since the Syrian crisis began, journalists have become a growing target for both the government and the rebel groups.
A report from Amnesty International honoring World Press Freedom day earlier this year was published stating, "Deliberate attacks on civilians, including journalists, amount to war crimes for which the perpetrators must be brought to justice."
The report blamed both sides for the attacks against journalists.
As a result of this abuse, the United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay implored the international community to reconsider their effects in the suffering in Syria at the 23rd session of the Human Rights Council, declaring that it has become "an intolerable affront to the human conscience."
"Time and again, delegates from all the countries present here today have solemnly agreed that the world must not permit the most extreme kinds of human rights violations," she said. "We have agreed that we have a duty to protect our fellow human beings - even if they are born in other countries; and even when they are being crushed by governments that have a claim to sovereignty over their territory.
"Much progress have been made in prosecuting people responsible for the commission of crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide," Pillay said. "Yet today, appalling violations of the most basic human rights are occurring in Syria, and I fear that we in the international community are failing to meet our fundamental obligations to the victims."
