Killed in Israeli strike, Mona Khalil remembered as the guardian of turtles

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Marine ecologist Mona Khalil succumbed to wounds sustained in an Israeli strike on her home in south Lebanon on June 19, two weeks after the initial attack. Khalil, a prominent environmentalist, was known for her decades-long work protecting sea turtles and their nesting sites in Mansouri.

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Submitted by Rita Kabalan on Wed, 06/24/2026 - 08:49 Lebanese marine activist was killed when Israel targeted her home near Tyre in south Lebanon Mona Khalil, a Lebanese ecologist activist, looks at a turtle at a coast in the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre on 12 August 2002 (Jihad Seqlawi/AFP) Off On the eve of World Environment Day, the Israeli army targeted The Orange House, the south Lebanon home of marine ecologist and environmentalist Mona Khalil, leaving her critically wounded. Two we

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