An airstrike trapped a journalist. She died as rescuers waited for permission to save her.

BEIRUT — For two hours on April 22, rescuers waited five miles away from where Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was taking refuge, injured and bleeding but still alive inside a building that had been leveled by an Israeli airstrike.

Responders from the Lebanese army, civil defense and Red Cross awaited clearance from international intermediaries. But the Israel Defense Forces was not giving the green light, according to two people familiar with the approval discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive details.