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Leading Lebanese conservationist dies after Israeli airstrike on her home

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June 21, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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Leading Lebanese conservationist dies after Israeli airstrike on her home

Mona Khalil died Friday after an Israeli airstrike hit her beachside home two weeks ago. She's credited with creating a conservation movement in southern Lebanon to protect sea turtle nesting grounds.

Mona Khalil, a Lebanese ecologist activist, looks at a turtle in the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre in August 2002.

Mona Khalil died Friday after an Israeli airstrike hit her beachside home two weeks ago. She's credited with creating a conservation movement in southern Lebanon to protect sea turtle nesting grounds.

(Image credit: Jihad Seqlawi)