Rights groups call Israel’s killing of journalist Amal Khalil a ‘war crime’

Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International say Israel seemingly targeted and killed the Lebanese journalist, obstructed rescuers.Lebanese and international rights groups have accused Israel of intentionally targeting and killing a Lebanese journalist and obstructing medical workers from reaching her as she lay critically wounded.Amal Khalil, a veteran reporter for the Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar, was killed in the attack on April 22 in al-Tiri in southern Lebanon. Photojournalist Zainab Faraj was critically injured.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Lebanon and Israel still split over disarming Hezbollah at Rome talkslist 2 of 3At least one Lebanese person, two Israeli soldiers killed in south Lebanonlist 3 of 3US says deal on reopening Hormuz close as Iran, Oman hold ‘positive’ talksend of listOn Thursday, Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International and Lebanese rights group The Legal Agenda released the findings of separate investigations into the attack.HRW said the Israeli strikes “included apparently deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian objects, which would make them war crimes”.Amnesty decried the “direct attack on civilians which should be investigated...