国际和黎巴嫩人权组织周四指控以色列蓄意针对并杀害《晨报》记者阿玛尔·哈利勒。[1]哈利勒于2024年4月在南黎巴嫩距以色列边境约8公里的阿尔蒂里村遭以色列空袭身亡，当时她正在报道以色列与真主党的战争。[1]她是2023年以来在以色列空袭中丧生的11名黎巴嫩记者之一。[1]
人权组织指出以色列军方应当意识到哈利勒和同伴——自由摄影师兼视频记者齐娜卜·法拉吉——的女性和记者身份。[1]根据证人描述，第一次空袭击中一辆汽车造成两人死亡，第二次空袭击中记者的汽车，第三次空袭击中她们躲避的建筑物。[1]黎巴嫩红十字会救护人员进入现场时遭以色列军队射击被迫离开。[1]验尸报告显示哈利勒于当晚因头部外伤和严重出血导致心脏骤停而身亡。[1]人权观察组织黎巴嫩研究员拉姆齐·凯斯表示："当救护人员被迫离开时，哈利勒很可能还活着。"[1]
参与发布会的组织包括大赦国际、人权观察组织、黎巴嫩法律议程组织和黎巴嫩记者工会。[1]大赦国际黎巴嫩研究员萨哈尔·曼杜尔表示："这些空袭被视为对平民的直接攻击，属于战争罪。"[1]自2023年以来，以色列空袭在黎巴嫩造成超过4000人死亡，100多万人流离失所。[1]
International and Lebanese human rights organizations alleged on Thursday that Israeli forces intentionally targeted and killed Amal Khalil, a senior reporter for the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, in a series of airstrikes in April 2024.[1] Khalil died when Israeli airstrikes struck the southern Lebanese village of Al-Tiriri, located approximately 8 kilometers from the Israeli border, while she was covering the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.[1] Her companion, freelance photographer and video journalist Zeinab Farraj, was wounded in the same attack.[1]
Human rights groups participating in the announcement—including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Lebanese Legal Agenda, and the Lebanese Press Syndicate—argued that the strikes constituted potential war crimes against civilians.[1] According to their account, Israeli forces launched three successive waves of attacks: the first struck a vehicle killing two people, the second hit the journalists' car, and the third targeted the building where they had sought shelter.[1] When Lebanese Red Crescent ambulance personnel arrived at the scene, Israeli military forces opened fire on them, forcing them to leave the location.[1] A medical examiner's report determined that Khalil died that evening from cardiac arrest caused by severe head trauma and bleeding.[1] Ramzi Kaiss, a Lebanon researcher for Human Rights Watch, stated: "When ambulance personnel were forced to leave, Khalil was likely still alive."[1] Amnesty International's Lebanon researcher Sahar Mandour characterized the airstrikes as "direct attacks against civilians that constitute war crimes."[1]
Khalil was one of eleven Lebanese journalists killed in Israeli airstrikes since 2023.[1] Since the outbreak of the latest Israel-Hezbollah conflict on March 2, Israeli airstrikes have caused over 4,000 deaths in Lebanon and displaced more than one million people.[1]