Overview
- Local groups say an Israeli strike hit Khalil’s home at al‑Mansouri beach in early June, leaving her critically wounded and causing her to die from those injuries on Friday.
- An assistant who lived with Khalil was also wounded when the house was struck and the Orange House conservation base was left damaged.
- The Israel Defense Forces told reporters Khalil “was not a target” and that there is no known IDF strike in which she was injured, creating conflicting accounts of responsibility.
- Khalil spent more than two decades protecting endangered loggerhead and green sea turtles from threats like coastal development, plastic pollution and light at the nesting site she helped turn into the Orange House.
- Volunteers and environmental groups have mourned her loss in Beirut, and security concerns now complicate burial plans and threaten ongoing conservation work and nest protection on Mansouri beach.