A MURDER MOST FOUL

Posted: 25th April 2026

Journalist Amal Khalil was killed on Wednesday in an Israeli bombing while reporting on Israel’s invasion of Southern Lebanon. Khalil had taken cover after an earlier Israeli airstrike near the car in which she was traveling. The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said the first strike killed two people. A second strike then hit the house in which Khalil and her colleague, Zeinab Faraj, were sheltering. Rescue workers were able to get to Zeinab, who was seriously wounded. But they were then fired on by Israeli forces, halting attempts to reach Amal. She remained under the rubble for hours before the Lebanese army, civil defense, and Red Cross were able to get to the scene. Her body was retrieved shortly before midnight, six hours after the strike.The killing of Amal is just the latest incident in a long chronicle of Israeli targeting of members of the press, a criminality rarely covered by establishment Western outlets. As Robin Andersen relates in her new book The Complicit Lens, “In April 2025, Al Jazeera circulated the names of every journalist killed in Gaza … the total came to 232, an average of 13 per month, a slaughter with no historical precedent.” Critics excoriated establishment media for ignoring their deaths. Rashid Khalidi wrote these stinging words to every Western outlet that refused to say ‘Israel does not allow us to report from Gaza’ and that Israel is deliberately killing journalists: ‘the disgrace and shame that accrues to them should be endless.’”