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The Palestine/US journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh aka 'Jazeerian' shot
through the head and slaughtered by an Israeli sniper.
Al Jazeera
18 May 2022
By Arwan Ibrahim
<<Abu Akleh pallbearer arrested days after Israelis attack funeral
Amro Abu Khudeir’s lawyer said that the interrogation of the man called
‘the coffin protector’ was about the funeral.
Occupied East Jerusalem – One of the Palestinian pallbearers attacked by
Israeli police while carrying the coffin of veteran Al Jazeera
journalist Shireen Abu Akleh at her funeral on Friday has been arrested
by Israeli authorities. A lawyer representing the 34-year-old Amro Abu
Khudeir said that the Jerusalemite had been arrested at his home in the
Shuafat area in the early hours of Monday morning, and had been
repeatedly interrogated about events surrounding the funeral. The
lawyer, Khaldoun Najm, added that Abu Khudeir had been held in solitary
confinement since his arrest. <He gets no light or sense of the time of
day in his two-metre-by-one underground cell,> Najm said. Najm added
that Abu Khudeir had attended a court hearing on Monday and had had his
detention extended until Sunday. The Israeli police said the arrest of
Abu Khudeir was not related to his involvement in the funeral
procession.
Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old Palestinian-American journalist, was killed by
Israeli forces during her coverage of an Israeli raid on Jenin refugee
camp in the northern occupied West Bank on May 11.
Israeli police attacked pallbearers and mourners at Abu Akleh’s funeral
as the event was broadcast live on television around the world, with
thousands gathered to see her coffin transferred from St Joseph Hospital
to her final resting place on Mount Zion, just outside the Old City in
Jerusalem. Abu Khudeir stood out in television footage of the funeral,
which showed pallbearers struggling to stop Abu Akleh’s coffin from
falling to the ground as Israeli police attacked the mourners using
batons. The move drew worldwide condemnation and calls for an
investigation, including from the United Nations. Abu Khudeir was
nicknamed <the coffin protector> after he was seen holding onto the
coffin despite being beaten aggressively by the police. While several
pallbearers were beaten by Israeli police, Najm says Abu Khudeir was the
only pallbearer to be arrested by Israeli authorities after the funeral.
<Israeli intelligence alleges that Amro worked with a terrorist
organisation and that he has a secret file with the intelligence,> Najm
told Al Jazeera.
However, Najm said that seemed unlikely because Abu Khudeir informed him
that all the questions during his interrogation had been related to the
funeral. <Amro was asked why he insisted on carrying the coffin and
making sure it didn’t fall to the ground,” said Najm. “The main focus of
the questions was about him being a pallbearer at Abu Akleh’s funeral.>
Najm said that Abu Khudeir, a father of two, was a well-known activist
in Jerusalem and had been arrested by Israeli police in the past.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/18/abu-akleh-pallbearer-arrested-days-after-israelis-attack-funeral
The Guardian
17 May 2022
Opinion
Palestinian territories
By Arwa Mahdawi
<<Shireen Abu Aqleh was a lifeline for Palestinians – and her killing
has shaken us to the core.
Schrödinger’s cat is old hat. Let me introduce a new thought experiment:
Schrödinger’s Palestinian. As a Palestinian, you are told constantly
that you may think you exist, but, really, you don’t. I am Palestinian
(I used to say half-Palestinian, through my father, but now I refuse to
slice myself in half) and have been told this several times. My
favourite example was when a colleague heard about my heritage and
informed me that, <semantically speaking>, there was no such thing as a
Palestinian and no such thing as Palestine. Well, there is no arguing
with semantics, is there? I disappeared into a puff of air right then
and there. Palestinians don’t exist – except, of course, when we are
militants or gunmen or terrorists or Hamas. There is no disputing our
existence then – no disputing our terrorising nature or our savagery.
There is no disputing our existence when we are targets for
condemnation. We exist when we are being criticised; we cease to exist
when it comes to human rights. There is no peace in Israel/Palestine
because Palestinians are terrorists who don’t want peace, one pervasive
narrative goes. But there is also no peace because Palestinians are
imaginary and Palestine is made up. We exist, but we don’t. It’s
complicated!
Why am saying all this? Because it is difficult to understand just how
devastating the killing of the journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh was – the
way it shook Palestinians to the core – without understanding what it is
like to be Palestinian. Being Palestinian means having the validity of
your existence litigated every single day. It means constantly being
gaslit, erased, talked over, smeared. For diaspora Palestinians like me,
it means getting used to being looked at with suspicion simply for
answering the question: ‘Where are you from?’ When my family moved to
New York when I was a kid, for example, a person on our building’s board
heard my dad was Palestinian and <jokingly> told him not to hold any
terrorist meetings in the apartment. (As if! You always hold monthly
militant meetings on the roof.) When I went to law school in London, I
was subjected to <joke> after <joke> about suicide bombers.
Anti-Palestinian bigotry is so normalised and widespread that, when
strangers ask me where I am from, I am often wary (and scared) of
mentioning Palestine.
Shireen Abu Aqleh had no such qualms; she was courage personified. The
much-loved Al Jazeera correspondent was a fixture on TV screens for more
than three decades, signing off her broadcasts with the refrain: <I am
Shireen Abu Aqleh, Jerusalem, occupied Palestine.> No mincing of words,
no apologies for existing; just the truth. Abu Aqleh was far more than a
journalist, far more than a household name. Even <icon> doesn’t capture
her. She was a documentarian of displacement, a voice for Palestinians,
a symbol of Palestine. She was a constant reminder that Palestinians are
not an abstract philosophical concept whose existence is up for debate,
but human beings deserving of dignity. For diaspora Palestinians, she
was a lifeline. And now she is gone.
Abu Aqleh isn't just dead; she has been desecrated. Her memory was
dishonoured by fellow journalists who reported her death with the
passive voice, diluted her death with references to <clashes> and gave
more credence to constantly shifting narratives from the Israeli
government than eyewitness accounts.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/17/shireen-abu-aqleh-was-a-lifeline-for-palestinians-and-her-killing-has-shaken-us-to-the-core
Al Jazeera
16 may 2022
<<Church leaders slam Israeli police attack on Abu Akleh’s funeral
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem accused Israel of ‘disrespecting the
church’ over what he called a ‘police invasion’ at Shireen Abu Akleh’s
funeral.
The police attack, Pizzaballa told reporters, <is a severe violation of
international norms and regulations, including the fundamental human
right of freedom of religion, which must be observed also in a public
space>. <Israel’s police invasion and disproportionate use of force,
attacking mourners, striking them with batons, using smoke grenades,
shooting rubber bullets, frightening the hospital’s patients, is a
severe violation of international norms and regulations,> Pizzaballa
said. St Joseph Hospital also released security camera footage that
showed Israeli forces storming the building where Abu Akleh’s body had
been lying, and said 13 people were injured as a result of the raid. Al
Jazeera’s Imran Khan said the hospital, along with church authorities,
are going to take legal action against Israeli authorities for what
happened. <The anger here is palpable,> Khan said, speaking from the
hospital’s entrance. <We heard from the director general [of the
hospital] saying that in his 31 years, he’s never seen anything like
it.> <Hospital authorities say there was absolutely no reason for
[Israeli forces] to have gone inside,> he continued, adding that the
three key words used to describe the actions of the forces are
disgraceful, disrespect, and disproportionate use of violence. The
attack on Friday drew worldwide condemnation and added to the shock and
outrage towards Abu Akleh’s killing as she covered an Israeli raid in
the occupied West Bank.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/16/church-leaders-slam-israeli-police-attack-on-abu-aklehs-funeral
The Guardian
16 May 2022
Opinion
Elisabeth Tsurkov
<<Israel knows it will get away with the attack on Shireen Abu Aqleh's
funeral.
Many were shocked by the images of Israeli border police attacking the
funeral procession of the prominent Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu
Aqleh – not merely by the police’s cruelty, but also by their
willingness to ride out the reputational damage from the attack. Abu
Aqleh’s killing, likely by an Israeli sniper, the subsequent raid on her
family home and the police’s intimidation of her brother prior to her
funeral all point to the growing sense of impunity among Israel’s
decision-makers and military. Israel’s leadership had promised the Biden
administration that the funeral of Abu Aqleh would be <respectful>. They
are likely displeased with the viral videos showing policemen attempting
to tear the Palestinian flags from Abu Aqleh’s coffin while beating
pallbearers with clubs, causing her coffin to almost fall to the ground.
Yet the country’s leadership has not faced any international
repercussions for its actions in the occupied territories in years. In
his meek statements concerning the assault on the funeral, the US
secretary of state, Antony Blinken, described Israeli forces as
<intruding into the funeral procession>, as if they were merely
uninvited guests. Israel can count on international inaction, while any
steps to discipline the policemen or hold to account the sniper who shot
Abu Aqleh, who was wearing a vest clearly indicating that she was a
journalist, will open the government to attack from the Israeli right.
For over a decade, the near-total disappearance of the Israeli left has
meant that political competition of any consequence comes from within
Israel’s rightwing bloc. Together with the growing strength of Israel’s
far right (bolstered by former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu), this
has led mainstream politicians to move further to the right in order to
avoid losing support among their base. Israel’s prime minister, Naftali
Bennett, and Netanyahu have tried at all costs to avoid appearing soft
on the Israeli security forces, no matter their crimes. In 2016, after
the Israeli soldier Elor Azaria was caught on camera killing an
incapacitated Palestinian attacker in Hebron, Netanyahu initially
condemned his actions. Later, after seeing poll results, he reversed his
position and called for Azaria to be pardoned. Azaria ended up serving
merely nine months in military prison. After his release, he became a
major celebrity in rightwing circles. Policemen caught on camera beating
journalists in Jerusalem, or soldiers involved in the detention of an
elderly Palestinian-American man, who was bound, gagged and blindfolded,
and who died shortly afterwards from an apparent heart attack, have not
been tried.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/16/israel-shireen-abu-aqleh-jerusalem-police
Al Jazeera
13 May 2022
By an Al Jazeera team
<<Slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh laid to rest
Abu Akleh was fatally shot by Israeli forces while reporting in the
occupied West Bank.
Veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh has been laid to rest in
a cemetery in occupied East Jerusalem, three days after she was fatally
shot by Israeli forces while reporting on a raid in the occupied West
Bank. Thousands of people gathered for Abu Akleh’s funeral on Friday,
including family, friends, and those who only knew Abu Akleh as a
mainstay for 15 years in Al Jazeera’s coverage of the occupied
Palestinian territories and the lives of everyday Palestinians. Some
mourners hoisted Palestinian flags, with many chanting <Palestine,
Palestine> as the coffin was moved from St Louis French Hospital in
occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood to a funeral
service at Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem's Old City and finally to the Mount
Zion Cemetery, where Abu Akleh was buried next to her parents.
Her niece, Lina Abu Akleh, remembered her aunt’s <commitment to making
sure that people know the truth, and her love for the people in making
sure they know the truth.> She knew how much she was loved, but she was
so humble, she never wanted to be at the centre of attention,” she said.
“I think she would have been proud to see how the Palestinian people
supported her and supported our family,>
Father Fadi Diab, the priest who conducted the funeral, told Al Jazeera
that Abu Akleh’s killing would <have influence all over the world.
Shireen Abu Akleh was a messenger for Palestinians and for their
rights,> he said. <Life is sacred and we’re not allowed to assassinate
life. God created life not to be assassinated, but to be nurtured.> <If
someone imagined that the influence of Shireen will stop, no,> he said.
<Now, she will have influence all over the world.> Still, constant
reminders of the Israeli occupation on which Abu Akleh so often reported
loomed over the three days of memorials that preceded the burial.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/13/slain-al-jazeera-journalist-shireen-abu-akleh-laid-to-rest
Al Jazeera
13 May 2022
By Maram Humaid
<<Lessons from Shireen Abu Akleh’s life, and death
For Al Jazeera’s reporter in Gaza, Maram Humaid, Shireen Abu Akleh was
an inspiration to become a journalist.
The news of Shireen Abu Akleh’s death was a shock like no other,
freezing the blood in my veins, and leaving me with trembling hands as I
tried to scroll on my phone to find out more information. Maybe it was
inaccurate? Memories came back of watching Shireen while I was growing
up, a presence on screen for the last 20 years, a young woman journalist
carrying a microphone with an Al Jazeera logo, reporting news from
Jerusalem, Jenin, Ramallah, and Israel’s repeated incursions across the
occupied West Bank. But it was true. Shireen had been cruelly killed
doing what she had always done: reporting. Shireen’s untimely absence
has revealed how she has become an integral part of keeping together our
Palestinian memory, our national identity, our relationship with the
land, and the occupier. For those of us, like myself, in the Gaza Strip,
where Israel divides us from the West Bank and Jerusalem, despite them
being only two hours away, she connected us. As a fellow Palestinian
woman journalist, Shireen was an exceptional role model. <Shireen Abu
Akleh, Al Jazeera, occupied Jerusalem> – her memorable closing line,
with her calm and melodious voice, fueled my passion for journalism, and
that of my generation of young women, holding a hairbrush in front of
the mirror and imitating her. Despite our familiarity with Israel’s
actions as an occupying force against the Palestinian people over the
years, Shireen’s killing was still unbelievably tragic and painful. It
was yet another slap in the face, emphasising that for the Israeli
occupation, there is little difference between a journalist, a
paramedic, or any civilian. We are all the same, and all potentially
subject to attack. Shireen’s experience, her constant presence, made us
think that she was an exception, that her years of professionalism, her
fame, even among Israelis, would intercede for her, and prevent her from
being targeted.
We were wrong.
The bullet that killed Shireen metaphorically killed every Palestinian
woman journalist. It brought us back to zero, to being fearful and
anxious about this troublesome profession, and the reality of doing it
while living under occupation, the potential that we can be targeted at
any moment. We have realised that no one is an exception, not even
Shireen. Even in death, Shireen gives us Palestinian journalists
lessons. She was a hero, who was loyal to the truth, and to the noble
message of journalism. Her conviction in her work and its importance was
clearly translated in the sweeping love of the masses of people who took
to the streets to pay tribute to her soul and wept for her memory.
Shireen’s death taught us that people do not forget those who value the
truth and appreciate a faithful reporter who can convey the voice and
suffering of the masses. A journalist must be human before everything
else, and close to the people whose message they are carrying. And that
is how Shireen was throughout her professional career, taking us in her
reports from one town to another, through the Israeli checkpoints, and
inside Palestinian homes full of stories of those who’ve died for the
cause, prisoners, the wounded, and their families. Shireen’s death has
taught us that a journalist can convey a just cause and that their
devotion to spreading their people’s message is not prejudiced, or a
detachment from professionalism. The price, however, is that you can pay
for it with your life. Shireen Abu Akleh, the constant presence on our
screen, had an extended, loving family in every Palestinian home. Her
message will remain, imperishable, and continue to spread – we
Palestinian journalists will make sure of it.>>
Source: Al Jazeera
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/13/lessons-from-shireen-abu-akleh-life-death
Al Jazeera
12 May 2022
By Andrew Mitrovica
Opinion
Al Jazeera columnist
<<Some truths about Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder
She was not 'killed'. Shireen Abu Akleh was murdered.
She was shot in the face. Not in the arm or a leg. In the face. That is
not a <kill> shot. That is a murder shot.
Abu Akleh was shot in the face, on purpose, while doing what she has
been doing since 1997 for Al Jazeera: telling the truth. She was
murdered for telling, yet again, the truth about how Israel has
corralled, bludgeoned, “raided”, evicted, jailed, traumatised, tortured,
murdered, and terrorised Palestinian after Palestinian, day after day,
week after week, month after month, year after year, decade after
decade. Abu Akleh did her job well. She did it with grace, patience and
resilience despite the indignities, horrors and dangers. It was her
duty, obligation, and responsibility to bear witness. Every day,
Palestinians risk being murdered because they are Palestinian. It does
not matter where they live – in Gaza, Jerusalem or the West Bank – every
day, Palestinians risk being murdered because they are Palestinian. It
does not matter what they do for a living – if they can find work at all
– every day, Palestinians risk being murdered because they are
Palestinian. It does not matter whether they are young or old, a man or
a woman, Muslim or Christian – every day, Palestinians risk being
murdered because they are Palestinian. As it happens, Abu Akleh, a
51-year-old Palestinian, was in Jenin yesterday morning when she was
murdered. She was there to do her job: reporting on how more Israeli
soldiers were <raiding> – a euphemism for terrorising – more
Palestinians. She was wearing a helmet and body armour marked <Press>.
She was standing at a roundabout with other Palestinian journalists when
she was shot in the face. An Al Jazeera producer, who survived, was shot
in the back.Abu Akleh’s body lay on the side of a road, next to a wall.
Her colleagues screamed for help as they pulled her away from a sniper’s
crosshairs. Later, a car arrived to ferry her to a nearby hospital. She
died there. Alone.
Another day, another murdered Palestinian.
But, unlike so many other murdered Palestinians, including four boys who
were dismembered by an Israeli missile while playing football on a
beach, Abu Akleh was well-known. She was on TV. She was popular. She was
admired and respected because she told the truth about the cruelty
Palestinians suffer and endure every day. So, her murder, unlike the
murders of so many other Palestinians made news in Europe and North
America. I doubt her murder would have made much news in Europe and
North America save for one inconvenient fact: Abu Akleh was also an
American.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/5/12/some-truths-about-shireen-abu-aklehs-murder
Al Jazeera
12 May 2022
By Sultan Barakat
Director of the Centre for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at the Doha
Institute
<<Only the ICC can deliver justice for journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
The murder of the Al Jazeera journalist should be investigated by an
international body.
Israel, of course, immediately tried to distort the story, claiming that
Abu Akleh may have been killed by a Palestinian fighter shooting
aimlessly into the streets. Or that she may have been caught in
crossfire. Of course, we know that Abu Akleh did not get caught in
crossfire. Her killing was not a <mistake>. It was deliberate. It was an
assassination aimed at silencing Palestinian voices, intimidating
Palestinian journalists, and obscuring the truth. We know this not only
because the evidence is clear, but also because Abu Akleh’s murder
follows a well-known pattern. Indeed, the veteran Al Jazeera reporter
was hardly the first Palestinian journalist killed, injured or
intimidated by Israeli forces for the crime of reporting on the
Palestinian struggle. In 2018, Ahmed Abu Hussein and Yasser Mortaja were
fatally shot by Israeli snipers while covering the Great March of Return
protests. Muath Amarneh and Nedal Eshtayeh were maimed by Israeli sniper
fire in 2019 and 2015, respectively. Basil Faraj, Fadel Shana, Hussam
Salama, Imad Abu Zahra, Issam Tillawi, Khaled Reyadh Hamad, Mahmoud al-Kumi,
Mohamed Abu Halima and many other journalists also suffered at the hands
of the Israeli forces over the years. It was only last year when Israeli
air raids bombed buildings housing media organisations in the Gaza
Strip, including the 11-storey al-Jalaa building, which housed Al
Jazeera and The Associated Press offices. Israel has a well-established
history of targeting journalists and getting away with it. But the
murder of Shireen Abu Akleh, a household name across the Arab world,
revered for her insight into the Palestinian story and objectivity, can
and should change this. Given the gravity of this murder, immediate
action must be taken to bring those responsible to justice – not only
the person whopulled the trigger but also the authorities who paved the
way for such an atrocity to be committed in the first place. Delivering
justice for Abu Akleh will not be easy. It will require an international
investigation and a commitment from the global community to hold Israel
to account for the crimes it commits not only against journalists like
Abu Akleh but all Palestinians. An investigation into Shireen Abu
Akleh’s killing that involves Israel in any shape or form would not get
us anywhere. Palestinians would, rightfully, see such an investigation
as nothing but a whitewashing attempt. Israel, after all, has a long
history of trying to legitimise its abuse of and violence against
Palestinians. And the Israeli authorities’ relentless efforts to distort
the truth and blame Abu Akleh’s death on Palestinians clearly show that
they have no intention of accepting responsibility for the killing.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/5/13/only-the-icc-can-deliver-justice-for-shireen-abu-akleh
Al Jazeera
11 May 2022
By Al Jazeera Staff
<<‘Our voice’: Friends react to Al Jazeera journalist’s killing
Shireen Abu Akleh – who was killed by Israeli forces while reporting –
was a role model, colleagues and friends say.
Al Jazeera’s Shireen Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old Palestinian-American
native of Jerusalem, was on assignment in the occupied West Bank when
Israeli forces shot and killed her while wearing a blue flak jacket
clearly marked with the word <PRESS>. The veteran journalist, who was
shot in the head, was a role model for generations of Arab journalists
and a voice for the voiceless according to her colleagues and friends,
having reported on Palestine and the surrounding region for three
decades.
Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar
Jarrar said that Abu Akleh was the voice of Palestinians and was killed
by <the monstrosity of Israeli colonialism and occupation>.
<Shireen was always my voice from the prison cells,> she said, adding
that a month into her last detention by Israel, Shireen was the first
person she saw at her court hearings.
<Shireen was our voice. It is unbelievable. It is a crime, it is all
clear – intentional and direct targeting. She was targeted. It’s clear.>
Tamer Mishal, Al Jazeera journalist
Al Jazeera journalist Tamer Mishal said Abu Akleh was a role model <for
every Palestinian journalist and for every Arab journalist>.
<Till the very last second, Shireen Abu Akleh was professional and
persevering,> he added. The last message Abu Akleh sent to Al Jazeera
was an email at 6:13am local time (03:13 GMT) in which she wrote:
<Occupation forces storm Jenin and besiege a house in the Jabriyat
neighbourhood. On the way there, I will bring you news as soon as the
picture becomes clear.>
Walid al-Omari, manager of Al Jazeera office in Ramallah
Al-Omari said that at the time of Abu Akleh’s killing, there were no
confrontations between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters.
<It seems that she was targeted even though she was in her journalist
vest; she was not known to have biases towards certain parties that
would make her a clear target, and she covered the truth and the whole
truth,> he said.>>
Note from Gino d'Artali:
3 more colleagues and friends come to word in the article.
Read all here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/11/friends-colleagues-react-to-al-jazeera-journalists-killing
Al Jazeera
11 May 2022
By Linah Alsaafin, Umut Uras, Zena Al Tahhan and Farah Najjar
<<Latest Abu Akleh killing updates: Palestine rejects Israeli probe
News from May 11: Palestine says it won’t accept a probe by ‘occupying
authority’ into Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing.
Calls for an independent investigation into the killing of veteran Al
Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh grow amid global outrage.
Abu Akleh has been shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied
West Bank. The 51-year-old was covering an Israeli army raid on the
Jenin refugee camp when she was shot in the face by a single bullet,
despite wearing a press vest. Another Palestinian journalist, Ali al-Samoudi,
was wounded in the back but is in a stable condition.
Al Jazeera, in a statement, said Abu Akleh was <assassinated in cold
blood> and called on the international community to hold Israeli forces
responsible.
....
US gov’t should investigate Abu Akleh’s killing: Rashida Tlaib
US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has called on the American government to
investigate the killing of Abu Akleh, saying that Washington should not
allow <the same people committing those war crimes to do the
investigation,> referring to Israel. <We need to investigate, ourselves,
the killing of an American citizen. Somebody that was out there being a
guardian of truth and doing her job was murdered by an apartheid
government that we continue to fund with unconditional aid,> Tlaib told
Al Jazeera in a TV interview. Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists
Association pays tribute to Abu Akleh
The Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association (AMEJA) has called
for a <transparent and independent investigation into the actions that
led> to Abu Akleh’s killing, stressing that the perpetrators of the
shooting must be held accountable.
<Journalists around the globe are increasingly under attack,> the group
said in a statement. <Shireen’s death is a reminder of the dangers they
face in trying to expose the truth. Her courage and determination to
report the Palestinian story is a tribute to our profession.>
....
Hundreds protest against Abu Akleh’s killing in Haifa, Nazareth
Some 200 Palestinians have gathered to protest against the killing of
Abu Akleh in Haifa and Nazareth in the north, local media reported.
Waving Palestinian flags, they shouted slogans decrying the slain
journalist's killing and held signs that read: <Shireen Abu Akleh's
message will not fall.> >>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/11/veteran-al-jazeera-journalist-killed-by-israeli-forces-live-news
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