Rights groups accuse Israel of targeting and killing Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil
Human Rights Watch said the strike also hit rescue workers and ambulances, and that 35 verified photos and videos support its war-crimes findings.
- On April 22, 2026, an Israeli strike in Al-Tiri, Lebanon, killed journalist Amal Khalil and seriously wounded freelance photographer Zeinab Faraj. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International characterized the incident as a direct attack on civilians.
- Khalil and Faraj had entered Al-Tiri to verify reports of Israeli military withdrawal while documenting the armed conflict. The village falls within an Israeli-designated "Forward Defence" zone that remains off-limits to civilians under military orders.
- Israeli surveillance drones hovered overhead for nearly two hours during three separate strikes, while paramedics remained unable to access the site for hours due to authorization delays. Khalil's body was recovered later after she succumbed to her injuries.
- The Israel Defense Forces claimed the strike targeted Hezbollah operatives Ali Nabil Bazzi and Mohammed Hourani, but Amnesty International stated the military knew, or should have known, the journalists were civilians.
- Demanding accountability, the Committee to Protect Journalists renewed its call for justice, warning that failure to investigate fosters impunity. Fifteen other journalists have been killed by Israeli forces in Lebanon since October 2023.
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Amal Khalil was killed in April – Israeli military says it has reviewed the incident and expresses “regret”
The Israeli attack in April on southern Lebanon, in which Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was killed, must be considered a war crime. This is according to human rights organizations Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International, and the investigative platform Legal Agenda following their own investigation. According to Amnesty, the attack must also be investigated "independently and impartially" as a war crime. The three organizations reached …
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International report that this was “a deliberate attack” against a civilian. Israel has killed 27 Lebanese informants since October 2023
Rights Groups: Israel’s Killing of Journalist Amal Khalil ‘Must Be Investigated as a War Crime’
“Amal’s killing can’t be allowed to become yet another unresolved case of a journalist killed by Israeli forces with complete impunity,” said one campaigner demanding a probe into the Lebanese reporter's death.
Rights groups decry Israeli killing of Lebanese journalist as ‘war crime’
Amal Khalil, a 42-year-old reporter for Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, and freelance camerawoman Zeinab Faraj had taken refuge in a building after an Israeli strike hit a vehicle travelling in front of theirs
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch believe that "the Israeli army knew or should have known that" the journalist of "Al-Akhbar" and her colleague Zeinab Faraj "were civilians, but then targeted them".
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