JAKARTA - Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on Wednesday local time.
The newspaper where the victim worked, Al-Akhbar, which is based in Beirut, confirmed the death of Amal Khalil as a result of the Israeli military attack.
Rescue teams said the victim's body was found from under the rubble in Al-Tiri City hours after the Israeli attack.
The name of the heroine Amal Khalil has always been associated with "the teacher of the south". How not, she is the heroine of the struggle, the pursuer of the enemy, who did not worry about the death and did not hide from the roar of planes and the sound of bullets, but faced with the overwhelming enemy with unparalleled strength and firmness, painted her way of leaving. pic.twitter.com/Gd0o2SxFAT
— Al-Akhbar News - Al-Akhbar (@AlakhbarNews) April 22, 2026
Meanwhile, AFP reported that the Lebanese civil defense agency's press office said that rescue teams "successfully found the body of the fallen journalist Amal Khalil, who was killed by an enemy air strike."
The Al-Akhbar newspaper said journalist Amal Khalil had been covering the Israel-Hezbollah conflict since October 2023.
In the expansion of the Israeli military operation into southern Lebanon since the beginning of March 2026, Amal Khalil also went to the field to perform journalistic performances.
The newspaper added that the senior journalist was killed after being chased by an Israeli plane, and had been targeted in a number of attacks.
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