Lebanese reporter killed in Israeli strike
發佈日期: 2026-04-23 21:35
TVB News
A Lebanese journalist was killed Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike on a house in southern Lebanon where she had taken cover while reporting.
The daily Al-Akhbar newspaper says its reporter Amal Khalil was killed.
She had been covering the conflict between Israel and the Hezbollah that resumed in early March.
She took cover in the house in al-Tiri after an earlier Israeli airstrike hit near the car she was travelling in with another colleague.
The Lebanese health ministry said the first strike killed two people. A second strike then hit the house where Khalil and another colleague Zeinab Faraj had taken cover.
Rescue workers were able to get to Faraj, and also retrieve the bodies of two killed in the first strike.
But they were fired on by Israeli forces so they had to stop attempts to reach Khalil.
Khalil remained under the rubble for hours before rescuers could retrieve her body.
Israel's military said individuals in the village had violated the ceasefire,and denied it targeted journalists.
Only days ago, Khalil was reporting on civil defence teams searching for the bodies of others killed in earlier Israeli attacks.
Khalil's death comes on the eve of the second round of direct talks between Israeli and Lebanese officials in Washington on extending the ceasefire between the two sides that went into effect last Friday.
Her death marks the ninth journalist killed in Lebanon so far this year.
Committee to Protect Journalists expressed its outrage at the apparent targeting of the 2 journalists, and warned the obstruction of rescue efforts "may amount to a war crime."
