Lebanon journalist Amal Khalil killed in Israeli airstrike on house where she took cover
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in southern Lebanon where she had taken cover while reporting on the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. Khalil's death brings the total number of journalists killed in Lebanon this year to nine, with over 2,300 people killed and 1 million displaced since the conflict resumed on March 2.
Amal Khalil, a reporter for Al-Akhbar newspaper, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the southern village of al-Tiri. She had taken cover there after an earlier Israeli airstrike struck near her vehicle. The initial strike killed two people, and a subsequent airstrike targeted the house where Khalil and her colleague Zeinab Faraj were sheltering. Faraj was seriously injured and initially rescued, but rescue workers were forced to abandon efforts to reach Khalil due to continued Israeli fire. Khalil's body was recovered nearly six hours after the strike. Israel's military claimed individuals in the village had breached the ceasefire, putting its troops at risk, and denied targeting journalists or preventing rescue teams from reaching the area. Khalil's death occurred on the eve of direct talks between Israeli and Lebanese officials in Washington on extending the ceasefire. The killing of journalists is considered a crime and a violation of international law, according to Lebanon's Information Minister Paul Morcos.
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