Three human rights organisations have denounced an Israeli attack in southern Lebanon that killed a journalist in April as a “war crime.”
Amal Khalil, who worked for the daily newspaper Al-Akhbar, was killed, while freelance cameraperson Zeinab Faraj was wounded, in an attack on 22 April in the village of al-Tiri.
The two women had taken shelter in a building after an Israeli strike targeted a car traveling ahead of them – the building itself was then targeted itself.
While Faraj was successfully rescued, Lebanese authorities accused the Israeli military of obstructing rescue efforts to save Amal Khalil while she was still alive.
Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International, and the Lebanese organization The Legal Agenda released separate investigations on Thursday.
HRW described the incident as “apparently deliberate attacks on civilians… which constitutes a war crime.”
Amnesty also condemned the incident as a “direct attack on civilians,” calling for a “war crime investigation.”
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