The body of a Lebanese journalist killed in an Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon on Wednesday was pulled from under the rubble hours after the attack.<\/p>\n
The daily Al-Akhbar newspaper confirmed that its reporter, Amal Khalil, was killed in the strike on the southern village of al-Tiri.<\/p>\n
Information Minister Paul Morcos also confirmed Khalil\u2019s death and condemned it.<\/p>\n
Khalil had been covering the Israel-Hezbollah war since it started in October 2023 and had been reporting from different parts of southern Lebanon on the hostilities.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Wednesday, Reporters Without Borders, or RSF, called on the international community to immediately pressure the Israeli army to allow the rescue of Khalil.<\/p>\n
\u201cHer life is in danger right now! Continued Israeli airstrikes are preventing rescuers from reaching her,\u201d RSF said.<\/p>\n
President Joseph Aoun had called on the Lebanese Red Cross to work on the rescue of Khalil prior to her death’s confirmation.<\/p>\n
Aoun had requested the Lebanese Red Cross to coordinate with the Lebanese army and U.N. peacekeepers \u201cto carry out the rescue operation in the shortest possible time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Red Cross had earlier evacuated another journalist Zeinab Faraj, who was injured in the same attack, along with the bodies of two people who were in a car that was also targeted in the location.<\/p>\n
“Israel fired a stun grenade at the Red Cross team, forcing it to withdraw from al-Tiri. The team is expected to return later to continue the search for the journalist Amal Khalil,” LBCI television said.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military confirmed that it struck a vehicle and a structure in the area after identifying what it described as militants posing an immediate threat near the border.<\/p>\n
The Israeli army said it was aware of reports that journalists were injured but did not confirm them and denied preventing rescue teams from reaching the area.<\/p>\n
The details of the incident are under review, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of a Lebanese journalist killed in an Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon on Wednesday was pulled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-406298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}