Israeli attack kills famed turtle sanctuary ecologist in Lebanon

[David__77]

The Lebanese marine activist Mona Khalil, who became a beloved figure in the country for a decades-long effort to protect a nesting site for turtles near her home, has died from injuries sustained in an Israeli strike.

Khalil, 76, ran a sanctuary called the Orange House Project near the Mediterranean city of Tyre. She hosted volunteers in her house to clean and monitor a mile-long beach and welcomed tourists to stay and learn about conservation.

An Israeli airstrike hit her house earlier this month, severely wounding Khalil, who was moved to an intensive-care unit in Beirut before succumbing to her injuries on Friday, according to friends. Her assistant, an Ethiopian woman, suffered burns but was recovering.

During the Lebanese civil war of 1975-90, Khalil moved to the Netherlands. She returned to her family’s land in 1999, where she had a chance encounter one evening with a turtle digging a nest in the sand on the beach.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/20/mona-khalil-turtle-ecologist-lebanon-killed-israeli-attack

[malaise]

1. Eff Bibi and his genocide posse

Enough of these war crimes

[hlthe2b]

3. +++ May the combination of all the innocents killed at Netanyahu's hand in past three years...

result in his ultimate KARMA being delivered--and soon.

[mahina]

2. Hideous.

[Raine]

4. 😔😪💔 nt

[JBTaurus83]

5. Karma will play out.

[sakabatou]

6. No other reason than sheer cruelty

[Pisces]

7. Things are crazy right now. This land grab into the surrounding areas by bombing is outrageous!! The world needs

to speak up. Sanctions need to be put in place. Way too many innocent people are being killed with no end in sight.

[Bettie]

10. The world is afraid to speak up

because even the suggestion that Israel is harming innocent people will bring cries of anitsemitism to anyone or any government that suggests that Israel is not the arbiter of who deserves to live and who does not.

Palestinians, Lebanese, Iranian (and other) people....they fall into Netanyahu's (along with his right wing allies) "don't deserve to live" category. They cover for it by declaring everyone who they are bombing a terrorist.

And yet, when someone is bombing your country, fighting back tends to be a standard response.

[pansypoo53219]

8. may god smite the evil that is netanfuckyou.

[BeneteauBum]

9. This is the kind of people the Israelis are afraid of?

Their paranoia must run nearly as deep as our country’s administration.

Peace ☮️

[paleotn]

11. When this regime is done. And it will be done.

We need to take a long, hard look at our relationship with Israel. This shit has got to stop.

[David__77]

12. Times are changing.

Honestly, the Republicans may not stay on that wagon either.

[Sewa]

15. The relationship should've changed

When Israel blew through Pres Biden’s first red line.

[PufPuf23]

13. Now I assume the bombing of Lebanese marine activist Mona Khalil by IDF was because she is a beloved person in Lebanon.

Believe that strikes like this and on doctors and aid workers are deliberate targets by IDF and part of their terror and genocide campaign.

I was a strong supporter of Israel all my life and that is no longer the truth.

[Pisces]

14. This is plain murder!!