Mourners gather to remember Lebanese conservationist killed by Israel
Key takeaways
- Renowned turtle conservationist Mona Khalil had been wounded in an Israeli attack in southern Lebanon.
- News of her death triggered an outpouring of grief among environmentalists and those who volunteered and worked with her over the years, many of whom gathered in Beirut on Sunday.
- Khalil was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1949.
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Renowned turtle conservationist Mona Khalil had been wounded in an Israeli attack in southern Lebanon.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Mona Khalil - a conservation specialist with the Orange House Project, which works to protect sea turtles in South Lebanon - inspects a turtle trail leading to a nest in al-Mansouri near Tyre, south Lebanon, June 30, 2015 [File: Jamal Saidi/Reuters]By Al Jazeera Staff and APPublished On 21 Jun 202621 Jun 2026Mourners have gathered in Beirut to pay their respects to a much-loved Lebanese conservationist who died from wounds caused by an Israeli strike on her home on the country’s southern coast.
Mona Khalil, 77, who spent more than two decades protecting sea turtles along Lebanon’s coastline, was critically injured in the attack in the village of al-Mansouri in Tyre province on June 4 and succumbed to her wounds more than two weeks later, on Friday.