Rights groups accuse Israel of targeting and killing Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil

International and Lebanese human rights organizations have accused Israel of intentionally targeting and killing journalist Amal Khalil during an attack in southern Lebanon earlier this year. The groups further allege that Israeli forces obstructed medical personnel from reaching Khalil while she was critically wounded following the strike. Khalil, who was employed by the daily newspaper Al-Akhbar, was killed alongside reports of another journalist being wounded in the same incident.

Advocacy groups have characterized the event as a potential war crime. The accusations center on the claim that the strike was not an incidental casualty of conflict but a deliberate targeting of a media professional, compounded by the subsequent prevention of emergency medical aid.