Rescuers said they recovered the body of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil after she was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a town in southern Lebanon.

The civil defence agency’s press office said rescuers were “able to recover the body of martyred journalist Amal Khalil, who was killed as a result of a hostile airstrike that targeted a house in the town of al-Tiri”.

Her employer, the Lebanese daily newspaper Al Akhbar, also announced her death.