<article data-history-node-id="438831" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/was-targeted-assassination-colleague-slain-journalist-amal-khalil" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/was-targeted-assassination-colleague-slain-journalist-amal-khalil" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">'This was a targeted assassination': Colleague of slain journalist Amal Khalil</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Journalist Courtney Bonneau described Israel's killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil&nbsp;as "a blatant murder", adding that she "executed in a targeted air strike".</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">"This was a targeted assassination.”<br> <br> Israeli strikes killed journalist Amal Khalil in the southern Lebanese town of at-Tiri on Wednesday after she reportedly took shelter inside a house from an earlier drone strike.<br> <br> Khalil, a correspondent for Al-Akhbar, had reportedly shared… <a href="https://t.co/2GHAWT8omg">pic.twitter.com/2GHAWT8omg</a></p> — Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) <a href="https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/2047171184106909976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </div> </div> </article>

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