Lebanon accuses Israel of targeting journalists
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Lebanon's Prime Minister Joseph Aoun has accused Israel of war crimes after Israeli air strikes killed one journalist and wounded another in southern Lebanon on Wednesday. The strike killed Amal Khalil, who worked for a Lebanese newspaper, and injured freelance photographer Zeinab Faraj - we speak to a colleague who knew Amal well.
Also on the programme: a South African court blocks the repatriation of the remains of Zambia's former president, Edgar Lungu, halting fresh plans for a state funeral; and we speak to the mother of a little girl who's had her vision almost entirely restored after pioneering gene therapy treatment.
(Photo: Journalists gathered in silence at Martyrs' Square to remember Khalil. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.6 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour for the BBC World Service. We're coming to you live |
| 0:14.3 | from London. I'm James Menendez. And coming up later, how pioneering gene therapy |
| 0:19.4 | helps save the sight of a six-year-old girl suffering from a very rare condition. |
| 0:24.7 | We'll be talking to her doctor and her mother. |
| 0:27.9 | It's been totally life-changing for us and for her. |
| 0:31.3 | I could never have imagined the results that we got within one week. |
| 0:35.6 | We were just completely dumbfounded. |
| 0:38.0 | It was like a miracle. |
| 0:39.7 | I could have just died happy right there. |
| 0:41.6 | And then we were absolutely amazed. |
| 0:43.8 | She could just see. |
| 0:45.4 | That's in half an hour. |
| 0:47.1 | But we are going to begin today in Lebanon, |
| 0:49.3 | where a funeral's been held right about now for Amal Khalil, |
| 0:52.9 | a reporter for a Lebanese newspaper, who was killed on Wednesday in an Israeli air strike. |
| 0:58.9 | Amal, who was 43, is the eighth journalist to be killed covering the latest conflict between Israeli forces and the militant group Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, those figures from the Committee to protect journalists. |
| 1:12.0 | Well, those deaths prompted Lebanon's president to today accuse Israel of deliberately |
| 1:17.1 | targeting reporters a war crime and to urge other countries to act to stop the killings. |
| 1:23.8 | Well, here's Amal Khalil, reporting from the site of a previous Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon. |
| 1:28.7 | This is from Tuesday. |
| 1:33.6 | Standing on top of a pile of rubble, she's saying that for a fifth day in a row, |
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