Mona Khalil, 76, a Lebanese environmental activist and sea turtle conservationist, died from injuries sustained two weeks earlier in an IDF attack near Mansouri beach, where she had long worked to protect nesting sites

Khalil spent more than two decades protecting the nests of endangered turtle species in southern Lebanon.

Mona Khalil led decades-long effort to protect nesting site for turtles near her home in south of the country