The coffin of al-Akhbar journalist Amal Khalil, who was killed by Israel on April 22 in the village of Tiri in southern Lebanon, carried by the crowd during her funeral processions in her hometown of Baissariyeh on April 23, 2026. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/L'Orient-Le Jour)
Fifty-seven kilometers: that is the distance between Baissariyeh, Amal Khalil’s hometown in the Saida district, and the village of Tiri in Bint Jbeil. It was there, at the edge of what the Israeli army now calls the “yellow line,” that the journalist and pillar of the daily al-Akhbar since its launch in 2006 was killed by those whose crimes she had relentlessly exposed. A daughter of the South, she was killed on her own land in the Israeli army's terrible, cold, calculated hunt.When asked about the risks she faced while continuing to cover the war along the border — after receiving three direct Israeli threats — she spoke of her “faith in Imam Hussein” and her “revolutionary southern soul,” which had taught her never to give up. She, who spent her work moving between the South and documenting its people's stories, was killed...
Fifty-seven kilometers: that is the distance between Baissariyeh, Amal Khalil’s hometown in the Saida district, and the village of Tiri in Bint Jbeil. It was there, at the edge of what the Israeli army now calls the “yellow line,” that the journalist and pillar of the daily al-Akhbar since its launch in 2006 was killed by those whose crimes she had relentlessly exposed. A daughter of the South, she was killed on her own land in the Israeli army's terrible, cold, calculated hunt.When asked about the risks she faced while continuing to cover the war along the border — after receiving three direct Israeli threats — she spoke of her “faith in Imam Hussein” and her “revolutionary southern soul,” which had taught her never to give up. She, who spent her work moving between the South and documenting its people's...
