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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Bassem Mroue and Sarah El Deeb

Israeli strike killed Lebanese journalist in ‘targeted’ attack as she sought shelter

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, who works for the daily Al-Akhbar newspaper, reports near a destroyed bridge in Qasmiyeh, Lebanon. - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A Lebanese journalist was killed on Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike on a house in southern Lebanon, where she had sought refuge while reporting on the ongoing conflict. Her body was retrieved from the rubble hours later, according to rescue workers.

Amal Khalil, a reporter for the daily Al-Akhbar newspaper, died in the southern village of al-Tiri. She had been covering the renewed conflict in Lebanon between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah militant group, which reignited in early March, against the backdrop of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran.

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