AFP photographer Christina Assi carries the Olympic Torch, with her colleague AFP video journalist Dylan Collins in Vincennes, France. Assi was severely injured when struck by a shell fired by an Israeli tank, according to a thorough AFP investigation, on October 13, 2023, while reporting on cross-border clashes between the Israeli army and armed groups in southern Lebanon, alongside six other colleagues including Dylan Collins, who was also injured. She has said she carried the torch “to pay tribute to those who have fallen" while doing their job as journalists". IMAGES