Prime Minister Nawaf Salam says attacks on media workers have become an established pattern, not isolated incidents
Amal Khalil, a reporter for Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar newspaper, was killed on Wednesday in an Israeli strike on a house in the southern village of al-Tiri, where she had taken cover after an earlier attack targeted the vehicle she was traveling in.
Her colleague Zeinab Faraj was seriously wounded, and rescuers were initially unable to recover Khalil’s body because Israeli fire forced them to halt their efforts for hours.
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said the attack amounted to a war crime, arguing that Israel’s strikes on journalists could no longer be dismissed as isolated incidents.
“Targeting journalists, obstructing access to them by relief teams, and even targeting their locations again after these teams arrive constitute clearly defined war crimes,” he wrote in a post on X. “Lebanon will spare no effort in pursuing these crimes before the competent international forums.”
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