James Stout

I think it was around seven hours, the official reporting says, and she died.

There's no way to frame this other than that Israel attacked her and then prevented her from receiving the treatment that she needed to be able to continue to live.

And Amal was somebody who I didn't know personally, so I can't speak to her character in my sense, but from the reports, people reported her as a person that was incredibly generous with her time, was incredibly helpful, was very kind to animals.

She was somebody who was in the South,

for years and years, was often in the South, was constantly in the South, was always on the front lines, felt it was her duty to report from the front lines as much as possible.

These are the people that the Israelis have targeted until now, without maybe going too much into an attempt to draw some sort of pattern

I think that what seems clear is that those people are a target.

But we have to ask, are the Israelis maybe trying to expand that a bit?

Because this is the first journalist they've killed from Al-Akhbar, right?

If they've killed Manar before, they've gone on to Mayadeen, or they've killed Manar and Mayadeen in one way, gone on to Al-Akhbar, are they widening the scope?

Are they challenging more people?

Are more people at risk?

And so I think what this does is inevitably now journalists will think twice about going south.

They'll think twice about going to the front lines.

Security advisors will put more caution into allowing their journalists to go south.

People will take less risks.

Obviously, people who will see themselves who work as targets, maybe with outlets that the Israelis are openly in opposition to, might take different decisions.

So I think this is where we end up at, basically, after such killings and such actions.

Referring back to the killing of Amal Khalil, we're recording this April 27th.

As far as I'm aware, no other journalist has been killed since.