Killed in Israeli strike, Mona Khalil remembered as the guardian of turtles

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Lebanese marine activist was killed when Israel targeted her home near Tyre in south Lebanon Mona Khalil, a Lebanese ecologist activist, looks at a turtle at a coast in the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre on 12 August 2002 (Jihad Seqlawi/AFP) Off On the eve of World Environment Day, the Israeli army targeted The Orange House, the south Lebanon home of marine ecologist and environmentalist Mona Khalil, leaving her critically wounded. Two weeks later, on 19 June, Khalil succumbed to her wounds