Amal Khalil, a reporter for the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, had gained renown for her intrepidity and her resolve over two decades of covering round after round of war between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia. <\/p>\n
On Wednesday, she was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the village of Tayri in southern Lebanon. She remained trapped under rubble for hours before emergency medics recovered her body, according to the Lebanese Civil Defense.<\/p>\n
At her family\u2019s home on Thursday, mourners gathered to pay their respects and vent their anger at what they saw not just as the blatant targeting of civilians but a violation of Israel\u2019s and Hezbollah\u2019s temporary cease-fire.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou couldn\u2019t ask Amal to be careful,\u201d her brother Ali Khalil said as he received condolences. \u201cThis is the only time I know Amal\u2019s address: she\u2019s in the grave. She used to move nonstop from one village to another in the south,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I know where my sister is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zeinab Faraj, a photojournalist and colleague of Ms. Khalil\u2019s, was rescued from the house.<\/p>\n
The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said the Israeli military had targeted the journalists in Tayri, where they took shelter in a nearby house after an airstrike destroyed a vehicle in front of the car they were traveling in. About an hour and a half later, a second strike hit the house they were hiding in, according to a statement by Al-Akhbar.<\/p>\n
Amid the 10-day truce between Israel and Lebanon, Israel has continued strikes against what it says are Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, citing its right to self-defense. The Israeli military denied in a statement that it had prevented rescuers from reaching the injured journalists, and said the incident was under investigation.<\/p>\n