{"id":37969,"date":"2026-08-06T15:57:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/israeli-army-deliberately-killed-lebanese-journalist-khalil\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T15:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:27:27","slug":"israeli-army-deliberately-killed-lebanese-journalist-khalil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/israeli-army-deliberately-killed-lebanese-journalist-khalil\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli army deliberately killed Lebanese journalist &quot;Khalil&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6124272.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The findings, compiled by Lebanese legal organization Legal Agenda alongside international monitors Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, expose a calculated pattern of targeting civilians and weaponizing bureaucratic &#8220;deconfliction&#8221; mechanisms to prevent life-saving medical access.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation centers on the events of April 22, 2026, in the village of al-Tiri, located in southern Lebanon\u2019s Israeli-occupied &#8220;security zone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Khalil, a 42-year-old reporter for al-Akhbar newspaper, and 21-year-old freelance photojournalist Zeinab Faraj, were in the area to verify reports of Israeli troop movements.<\/p>\n<p>According to the timeline established by the investigators, the Israeli military first struck a vehicle carrying two local municipal officials at 2:25 PM.<\/p>\n<p>After the journalists called the Lebanese civil defense for help, rescue crews were forced to wait at a military checkpoint for hours, awaiting approval from the Israeli military\u2019s so-called &#8220;deconfliction mechanism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While waiting, Israeli quadcopters circled dangerously low over the journalists, who were forced to abandon their vehicle and seek shelter in a nearby building.<\/p>\n<p>At 3:40 PM, an Israeli strike hit their car, severely injuring both women. Despite their desperate calls for help, rescue crews were repeatedly denied entry.<\/p>\n<p>At 4:25 PM, the Israeli military launched a third strike, bombing the very building where the injured journalists were sheltering, burying them under rubble.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/246804\/Israeli-army-deliberately-killed-Lebanese-journalist-Khalil\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The findings, compiled by Lebanese legal organization Legal Agenda alongside international monitors Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, expose a calculated pattern of targeting civilians and weaponizing bureaucratic &#8220;deconfliction&#8221; mechanisms to prevent life-saving medical access. The investigation centers on the events of April 22, 2026, in the village of al-Tiri, located in southern Lebanon\u2019s Israeli-occupied &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}