'This was a targeted assassination': Colleague of slain journalist Amal Khalil

Journalist Courtney Bonneau described Israel's killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil as "a blatant murder", adding that she "executed in a targeted air strike".

"This was a targeted assassination.”

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.

Khalil, a correspondent for Al-Akhbar, had reportedly shared… pic.twitter.com/2GHAWT8omg

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