When Lebanon’s ceasefire still hunts journalists, truth becomes prey

There is a particular cruelty in silencing those whose sole weapon is a camera, a notebook, or a voice. The killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil in southern Lebanon is not an isolated tragedy; it is part of a pattern that is becoming impossible to ignore, and even harder to explain away. In a war already saturated with grief, the deliberate or reckless targeting of journalists signals something deeper than battlefield error. It suggests an erosion of the very rules that once attempted to civilise conflict. On 22nd April 2026, during what was meant to be a brief, US-mediated ceasefire, Israeli strikes hit a civilian vehicle near al-Tayri. When Khalil and her colleague Zeinab Faraj moved to report on the […]