Amal Khalil was a 42-year-old journalist working for al-Akhbar, a Lebanese newspaper, while Zeinab Faraj was a 21-year-old freelance camerawoman and photojournalist. Both had been active in covering the war in Lebanon over the last three years.

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While waiting for the civil defence to arrive, Faraj and Khalil left their car and sought shelter elsewhere. Israeli quadcopters circled low overhead while the two journalists waited, Faraj said.

“The drones came extremely close through the roof, less than a metre from my face and Amal’s,” she said.

At 3.31pm, a member of the Lebanese civil defence called Khalil and urged her to get into her car and drive out of the village, as he had not yet received permission from the mechanism to enter the village. Around nine minutes later, Israel struck the journalists’ car, injuring both women.

“Glass and debris flew towards us. My ear felt like it burst. She [Amal Khalil] was bleeding heavily from the nose and head and had shrapnel wounds in her arm and thigh; she couldn’t move her leg,” Farj said.

The two women crawled into a nearby building for shelter. They both continued calling people, asking for assistance, but were told they could not be rescued until authorisation was given from the mechanism.

At 4.25pm, Israel conducted a third strike, bombing the building where they were sheltering, collapsing it and burying both women under the rubble.