A Lebanese journalist was killed Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike on a house in southern Lebanon where she had taken cover while reporting on the Israel-Hezbollah war. Her body was only retrieved from the rubble hours later, rescue workers said.
The victim, Amal Khalil, worked for the daily Al-Akhbar newspaper. She was reporting near a destroyed bridge in Qasmiyeh, Lebanon, on March 22, 2026, when she was later killed in an airstrike in al-Tayri village, south Lebanon, on Wednesday, April 22, 2026.
Khalil and her colleague Zeinab Faraj were reporting on an earlier Israeli attack on a vehicle when they were targeted while fleeing toward a building to take shelter. An earlier Israeli air raid had killed two people near the car in which they were traveling.
After taking cover inside the house, rescue workers initially tried to reach Khalil but came under Israeli fire and were forced to withdraw, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health. A second strike then hit the house where the two journalists had sought refuge.
Paramedics rescued Faraj and recovered Khalil’s body from the rubble shortly before midnight, more than seven hours after the attack. Lebanese officials described the incident as a “double-tap” strike.
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has accused Israel of crimes against humanity for killing journalist Amal Khalil and wounding her colleague Zeinab Faraj in the air strike in the village of al-Tayri in southern Lebanon.
The killing has rattled a tenuous cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon, according to international reports. The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health confirmed the incident, stating that Israeli strikes killed one journalist and wounded another in southern Lebanon on Wednesday.