Israeli strike kills 80-year-old Palestinian academic and former hijacker in Lebanon
Submitted by Alex MacDonald on Mon, 04/20/2026 - 14:30 Maha Abu Khalil, an early member of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, killed in Tyre A recent picture of Maha Abu Khalil in southern Lebanon (X) Off A Palestinian academic and activist who was one of the first women plane hijackers was killed in an Israeli air strike last week on the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, according to Lebanon's state news agency. Maha Abu Khalil, 80, was killed close to midnight on 17 April
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