Mona Khalil, sea turtle conservationist, killed in Israeli strike in Lebanon
When war arrived again in Lebanon, Mona Khalil refused to abandon her beloved beachfront home or the endangered sea turtles she had dedicated her life to protecting.
During the last conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in 2024, the environmental activist reluctantly fled her property in the southern Lebanese village of Al-Mansouri, which doubles as a marine conservation area, and took refuge in Beirut.
Her friends say she resented every second of being driven from her home. So when war began anew in March, Khalil stayed put.
She died on Friday from wounds sustained in an Israeli strike on her home earlier this month. She was 76.
"She chose her own destiny," Assad Serhal, Khalil's friend and fellow conservationist, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. "She wanted to die there, and she did."
On June 4, an Israeli strike hit Khalil's house. Her assistant, an Ethiopian woman, is recovering from burns, according to the Guardian. But Khalil succumbed to her wounds in a Beirut hospital.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/mona-khalil-obit-9.7246301
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