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The Palestine/US journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh aka 'Jazeerian' shot
through the head and slaughtered by an Israeli sniper.
The Guardian
May 27 2022
By Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
<<Shireen Abu Aqleh: killing of reporter referred to international
criminal court.
The family of the killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh has
allowed her death to be added to a legal complaint being taken to the
international criminal court, arguing that Israeli security forces have
been systematically targeting Palestinian journalists in violation of
international humanitarian law. The case originally submitted in April
by Bindmans had focused on four Palestinian journalists wearing press
helmets and vests, two of whom were maimed and two shot dead. It also
covers alleged attacks on Gaza media infrastructure in May 2021.
Lawyers from Bindmans and Doughty Street Chambers announced the addition
of the death on 11 May of Abu Aqleh to the existing claim at a press
conference in London. They said the case was vital owing to the repeated
failure of the Israeli security forces to investigate such incidents and
the inability of Palestinian reporters to secure reparations in Israeli
domestic courts. Jennifer Robinson, from Doughty Street said: <The ICC
prosecutor must investigate our complaints and prosecute those
responsible to send a clear message not just to the Israeli forces and
government, but to all governments that targeting journalists is a crime
and journalists are not fair game.> She said the ICC prosecutor needed
to open the case because it was emblematic of a problem that has been
continuing for many years. The ICC will have to judge whether there is a
prima facie case that the Israeli security forces have been deliberately
targeting reporters, and whether its internal inquiries are consistent
with natural justice. There will also be issues of jurisdiction. In
February 2021, the ICC said its jurisdiction extended to Gaza and West
Bank, making it more likely the ICC can take up the issue. Israel itself
is not a party to the ICC, raising issues of enforcement of any eventual
ruling. The case is being supported by representatives from the
International Federation of Journalists, the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate and the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians.
Tayab Ali, the Bindmans solicitor in the case, said <evidence was not
lacking, but the political will>, adding <Israel in the past has been
gifted immunity>. He said: <Israel has enjoyed a devastating impunity
against accountability for the actions of its armed forces, and has
repeatedly demonstrated that it is a bad faith investigator. It has not
managed to hold anyone to account for the tens of Palestinian
journalists that have been killed or maimed so far>.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/27/shireen-abu-aqleh-killing-of-reporter-referred-to-international-criminal-court
Al Jazeera}Mubasher
May 27 2022
<<Palestinian Minister of Justice: For these reasons, we decided not
to display the photo of the bullet that killed Shireen Abu Akleh.
Palestinian Justice Minister Muhammad al-Shalaldeh said that the Israeli
occupation forces deliberately killed our colleague Shireen Abu Aqleh
with premeditation, and that her assassination falls under the category
of a <war crime> according to the classifications of international law.
Shalaldeh added in an interview with Al-Essiya program on Al-Jazeera
Mubasher, Thursday evening, that the investigation conducted by the
Palestinian Authority proved that <the bullet that assassinated my
colleague Abu Aqila came from an Israeli sniper's weapon in the place
where the occupation forces are stationed.> He continued, <The
characteristics of the bullet that penetrated Shirin's head bear Israeli
details, and that it contains an armor-piercing iron part.> The
Palestinian minister revealed that the Palestinian Authority decided not
to display the picture of the bullet that assassinated Shireen <to
deprive the occupation of manipulating and changing its narrative,>
adding that the authority demanded the International Criminal Court to
move and study the file of the assassination of colleague Shireen Abu
Akleh.
Akram Al-Khatib, the Palestinian Public Prosecutor, said that all the
facts show the availability of the elements of the premeditated murder
of our colleague Sherine Abu Aqleh, and the attempted murder of
journalist Ali Al-Samudi. Al-Khatib confirmed during a press conference,
Thursday, to announce the results of the investigations into the
assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh, <that the characteristics of the
bullet showed that it was from an Israeli sniper weapon from the
location of the occupation forces> concentration, and that the effects
of the repeated projectiles in The Palestinian minister revealed that
the Palestinian Authority decided not to display the picture of the
bullet that assassinated Shireen <to deprive the occupation of
manipulating and changing its narrative,> adding that the authority
demanded the International Criminal Court to move and study the file of
the assassination of colleague Shireen Abu Akleh.>>
Read more here:
https://mubasher.aljazeera.net/news/politics/2022/5/27/%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9
Al Jazeera}Mubasher
May 27 2022
<<Vice President of the Qatari <Shura>: Sherine's assassination is an
attempt to silence the voice of truth and free speech.
Dr. Hamda bint Hassan Al-Sulaiti, Vice-President of the Qatari Shura
Council, confirmed that the assassination of Al-Jazeera correspondent
Shireen Abu Aqleh is an attempt to silence the voice of truth and free
speech. She said in a speech before the International Women's Coalition
Conference in Support of Jerusalem and Palestine in its seventh edition,
under the slogan <The Pioneers of Jerusalem Make Its Victory> today,
Friday, in Istanbul, Turkey, that Shirin Abu Aqleh is a model for
courageous Palestinian women. She stressed that the position of the
Qatari people on the Palestinian cause and on Jerusalem is consistent
and has not changed, namely support for the cause in all its dimensions,
and a commitment that the peace process be based on a comprehensive,
just and lasting settlement based on international legitimacy and the
Arab Peace Initiative.
She pointed out that the conference is a good opportunity to show the
Palestinian women's violations of their rights, and to praise their
steadfastness and struggle in the face of the war machine and the
soldiers of the Israeli occupation. She said that the conference is a
good opportunity for young women from all over the world who love peace
and strive for truth to join the Women's Coalition and support women's
steadfastness in the face of Israeli violence and oppression in Al-Quds
Al-Sharif. She emphasized that the role of women in supporting Jerusalem
and Palestine is not limited to being half of society, but rather
because she is the first responsible in the family for preparing and
rehabilitating the younger generations to believe in the Palestinian
cause and that Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque belong to the entire Islamic
nation. She said that Palestinian women have suffered, especially
recently, in difficult and harsh conditions, after the
occupation forces escalated the use of excessive force and
internationally prohibited weapons against them, which led to the deaths
of female martyrs. She stated that one of the female martyrs who fell
victims of this policy was colleague Shireen Abu Akleh, referring to a
quote from the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad, about the late
martyr at the Davos Forum a few days ago. She said that what we
witnessed through the media in occupied Palestine, especially in Al-Quds
Al-Sharif and Al-Aqsa Mosque, from violations of human rights and the
imposition of restrictions and violations calls for an appeal for the
need to provide protection for Palestinian women.>>
Read more here:
https://mubasher.aljazeera.net/news/politics/2022/5/27/%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%B1%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%B3-%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B7%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D8%BA%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%84
Sioux City ] AP
May 23 2022
<<Davos updates | Qatar's ruler calls out West on lives valued.
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The ruler of Qatar has called out double
standards in the West while evoking the killing of a
Palestinian-American journalist during an Israeli raid this month.
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said during a speech at the World
Economic Forum on Monday that <we should not accept a world where
governments have double standards about the value of people based on
their region, race or religion.> He added: <We consider the value of
each European life to be just as precious as someone from our region.>
Al Jazeera, which is headquartered in Qatar and was started by Sheikh
Tamim’s father in the 1990s, says Israeli gunfire killed its longtime
correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11. Israel says she may have been
shot by its forces but maintains it cannot be certain without further
forensic evidence. Sheikh Tamim called on the world’s political and
business elites gathered in Davos to give as much attention as they are
to Ukraine to resolving all forgotten or ignored conflicts.>>
Source:
https://siouxcityjournal.com/lifestyles/technology/davos-updates-qatars-ruler-calls-out-west-on-lives-valued/article_7db75288-8026-5414-9d8a-5b24d36bcc39.html
Al Jazeera
21 May 2022
The listening Post on Twitter:
<<The Israeli media on the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh>
View it here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd16BXiK7UV/
Al Jazeera
20 May 2022
Infograpic on Twitter and
<<Mapping Shireen Abu Akleh solidarity protests.>>
View it here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdqd_YTpMjI/
Al Jazeera
20 May 2022
By Arwa Ibrahim
<<Palestinian identity and Israel’s long attempt to suppress it
Israeli attack on funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh and confiscation of
Palestinian flags are part of a decades-long pattern.
Occupied East Jerusalem – When Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
was shot dead on May 11 while covering an Israeli raid on the Jenin
refugee camp, north of the occupied West Bank, mourners quickly gathered
at the family home in occupied East Jerusalem.
As crowds streamed through the door to pay their respects, Abu Akleh’s
family adorned the entrance with Palestinian flags and photos of the
veteran Al Jazeera journalist. Friends cranked up nationalist
Palestinian songs. Within hours, Israeli police had turned up at the Abu
Akleh home in Beit Hanina demanding that the flags be taken down, the
music turned off, and the nationalist chants silenced. Two days later,
similar demands were enforced much more fiercely by Israeli forces. When
thousands of mourners gathered outside St Joseph Hospital in Jerusalem
to bid their beloved journalist farewell, dozens of Israeli police
attacked the funeral procession with batons and rubber bullets. The
police targeted the pallbearers who struggled to keep the coffin, which
was draped with a Palestinian flag, from falling to the ground. <They
kicked us, hit us with wooden batons, and launched rubber bullets within
close range,> said Fadi Mtour, one of the pallbearers who carried
Shireen’s coffin that day. <No matter how hard they beat us, we had to
keep that coffin from falling. It became a symbol of our dignity and
lives. If Shireen’s casket fell, we would, too,> said Mtour, a
41-year-old Jerusalemite who regularly attends demonstrations. <There
was so much hatred and violence … like nothing I’ve ever experienced,>
he said. The reason for the Israeli aggression at the funeral was the
Palestinian flag, and what Abu Akleh represented in terms of Palestinian
identity, Mtour explained. <They [Israeli authorities] are afraid of the
Palestinian flag because it represents our identity, the same way that
Shireen, her funeral and life did,> said Mtour, whose 18-year-old son
was also beaten on the head during the funeral, sustaining an injury
that required several stitches. <They were ready to commit a massacre to
bring down the Palestinian flag,> Mtour said, adding that even women and
children were beaten for waving the flag.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/20/palestinian-identity-and-israeli-attempts-to-suppress-it
Al Jazeera
20 May 2022
By Al Jazeera Staff
<<New video shows no fighting before journalist Abu Akleh’s killing
The video, verified by Al Jazeera, corroborates witness accounts, adds
further proof that Israeli forces shot Abu Akleh.
A new video that begins moments before Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu
Akleh was killed has emerged showing relative calm and quiet, contrary
to claims by Israeli officials that fighting was taking place in the
area. Abu Akleh, 51, was killed by an Israeli soldier on May 11,
according to colleagues and witnesses who were present at the scene,
while covering a military raid by Israeli forces in the occupied West
Bank city of Jenin. The clip, which was verified by Al Jazeera, shows
initial quiet with no sounds of fighting, corroborating witness reports
that there were no clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian
fighters at the time of the shooting, as the Israelis have suggested.
Some people are seen to be talking and laughing in the foreground, with
people in the background, including Abu Akleh and some of her colleagues
wearing blue press flak jackets, also visible. Abu Akleh and the other
journalists are walking in the direction of where Israeli forces were
located, before gunfire shots start ringing out. Once the shooting
starts, people in the foreground start running away from where the
Israeli forces were positioned. Abu Akleh can be seen lying in the
street after being shot.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/20/new-video-shows-no-clashes-during-shireen-abu-aklehs-killing
Read also the (linked) embeded articles:
- Shireen Abu Akleh: US lawmakers demanding FBI investigate killing
- Is there Western media bias in the Shireen Abu Akleh coverage?
- Israel will not investigate Shireen Abu Akleh's killing
Al Jazeera
19 May 2022
By Ibrahim
<<A week on, Shireen Abu Akleh’s family grieves and wants justice
Shireen Abu Akleh’s brother and niece tell Al Jazeera that her killing
was an attempt to silence her voice.
Occupied East Jerusalem – Days after Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu
Akleh was killed by Israeli forces while reporting on an Israeli raid in
the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, her family gathered the strength
to visit the site of where it all happened. It was the first time Abu
Akleh’s niece and close companion, Lina, had visited Jenin, but the
trip, while an emotional reminder of what had happened, helped the
27-year-old understand what Jenin had meant to her aunt. <Although it
was triggering, it filled me with happiness to finally understand what
this city had meant to Shireen,> said Lina, as tears filled her large,
dark eyes. Lina referenced an article that Abu Akleh had written a year
ago, where she had described the occupied West Bank city as a place that
<lifted her morale and made her fly high. That’s exactly how I felt. To
me, Jenin is such a special city, not just because it’s where Shireen
was killed but also because of the impact it had on her career and life.
She saw the people of Jenin as not only brave, but people who don’t give
up,> she added. Although the 51-year-old veteran journalist had covered
the whole of Palestine, she was among only a few journalists who had
followed the story of Jenin, a symbol of Palestinian resistance, for so
long and with such dedication. Abu Akleh reported on the infamous April
9, 2002 Israeli assault on the Jenin refugee camp, and 20 years later,
she was still there to report an Israeli raid on the same camp.
Clearly targeted
As Lina sat in her family home in Beit Hanina, a Palestinian
neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem, she said the visit also made
it clear that Abu Akleh was targeted. <We saw where she stood; a clear,
open area. There’s no way she was caught up in clashes,” said Lina. “It
was a deliberate attempt to silence Shireen’s voice against the
bullets.> Lina recalled the first moments after receiving the
devastating news of her aunt’s untimely death during the early hours of
May 11. <I'm still trying to process it and I can’t comprehend it,> said
Lina, as a cheerful white dog called Filfel – ‘pepper’ in Arabic – burst
through the doorway and jumped into her lap. As Filfel licked Lina and
buried his nose into her black shirt, the young woman’s face relaxed and
a vibrant smile formed across it.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/5/19/a-week-on-shireen-abu-aklehs-family-grieve-and-want-justice
Al Jazeera.net
Featured Article
19 May 2022
<<Violence erupts between Israeli security forces and Palestinian
mourners carrying the casket of slain Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu
Akle out of a hospital, before being transported to a church and then
her resting place, in Jerusalem, on May 13, 2022. - Abu Akleh , who was
shot dead on May 11, 2022 while covering a raid in the Israeli-occupied
West Bank, was among Arab media's most prominent figures and widely
hailed for her bravery and professionalism. The assassination of Sherine..
The occupation army identifies the possible crime weapon and refrains
from formal investigation, and the resignation of a deputy may topple
the Bennett government. The Israeli occupation army confirmed that it is
currently refraining from conducting an investigation into the
assassination of Shireen Abu Aqleh, while Israel faces the possibility
of early elections following the resignation of an Arab lawmaker in
protest against the attack on Shireen's funeral.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.net/
Al Jazeera
18 May 2022
<<On the way to Jenin.. this is what Sherine Abu Akleh said in the last
interview
The late Al-Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Aqleh said that dealing
with tanks and the Israeli occupation is very difficult, as sometimes
the occupation prefers to see you as a soldier and may shoot you, but
the journalist must always assess the situation.
And she added - in the last interview that Al-Jazeera had with Abu Aqila
on 07/13/2021 - that the difficulties of field coverage of the war were
represented in the journalist maintaining his safety in parallel with
conveying his message with all professionalism, it is difficult to be in
an area where the journalist himself is under threat and bombardment
With missiles, he has to carry out his journalistic mission at the same
time. It is not possible to talk about the second intifada without
mentioning the Jenin camp, especially since Al-Jazeera was among the
first stations that transmitted these events, despite the lack of
capabilities at the time. As if recounting the events of her
assassination, she said that Jenin during the second intifada was one of
the areas where if any tank encountered you on the road, it would come
under fire, and she and her colleagues were striving to hide from the
sight of the Israeli soldiers. At every moment, she expected the news of
the martyrdom of people she met and visited in the camps, and therefore
she described them as difficult days. The targeting of the security and
official agencies created the challenge of accessing information for the
journalist. Another important coverage of her was Israel's withdrawal
from the Gaza Strip, where she said that she was proud of it because she
witnessed the moment of the evacuation of settlers instead of conveying
the image of the Palestinians who were abandoning their homes. Among her
distinguished experiences is entering Ashkelon prison to transmit the
voice of prisoners for more than 20 years, noting that some prisoners
were also detained with their children. She said that wherever the
camera was placed, they were seen as filming in a prohibited place, even
if there were Israeli media outlets in the same place. She mentioned
that sometimes cars with settlers come to search for Palestinian or Arab
journalists, and sometimes they ask specifically about Al-Jazeera
journalists. She always said that you feel targeted, indicating that
targeting by settlers is more difficult because they are unruly and
armed at the same time. She referred to the incident of arresting her
colleague Guevara Al-Budairi during the events of Sheikh Jarrah, who was
assaulted by the soldiers and would have been accused of assaulting one
of the soldiers had it not been for the existence of records proving
otherwise. She added that sometimes there is a difficult feeling that
combines human feelings to defend the innocent and carry out the
journalistic mission with impartiality>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.net/programs/miscellaneous/2022/5/18/%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%82-%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%87%D8%B0%D8%A7-%D9%85%D8%A7-%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%87-%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86
Watch also the embedded video (Arabic language):
https://www.aljazeera.net/programs/miscellaneous/2022/5/18/%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%82-%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%87%D8%B0%D8%A7-%D9%85%D8%A7-%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%87-%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86
Al Jazeera.net
18 May 2022
<<Al Jazeera Mubasher meets a Palestinian who named his twins <Shireen>
and <Jenin> after the late colleague (video).
Palestinian citizen Mohammed Thabet from Gaza named his twin daughters (Shireen)
and (Jenin), days after the Israeli occupation forces assassinated
fellow Israeli Sherine Abu Aqleh while she was covering her press in
Jenin camp in the northern West Bank.
Thabet said during an interview with the evening program on Al Jazeera
Mubasher, on Tuesday, that he chose the two names in honor of Sherine
and the place of her assassination, while speaking at the same time
about her impact on his family and the Palestinian people. He added, <We
were aware of Shireen Abu Aqleh, her reports, and her sense, as she was
present in every place and in every event,> praising her coverage of the
recent Gaza war. In turn, the mother of the two children said that she
and her husband intended to name the two children (Jude) and (Julia),
but the assassination of Sherine called them to change their minds. She
indicated that she received the news of Sherine's death while she was in
the hospital, one day before giving birth, as it was difficult and
shocking for her.>>
Read more here:
https://mubasher.aljazeera.net/palestine/2022/5/18/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%B1-%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%82%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B0%D9%8A
Al Jazeera
18 May 2022
By Ali Harb
<<‘I lost a sister’: Shireen Abu Akleh honoured at Washington vigil
US attendees pay tribute to the slain Al Jazeera journalist and call for
an independent investigation into her killing.
Washington, DC – Hundreds of Palestinian rights supporters and press
freedom advocates have gathered in Washington, DC to pay tribute and
demand justice for Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was
killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank last week. The
candlelight vigil, held outside the National Press Club late on Tuesday,
came nearly a week after Abu Akleh was fatally shot while on assignment.
<We grew up watching Shireen. Shireen was our voice. And we felt like
that voice was cut off,> Najat Ghanem, a mother of two, told Al Jazeera,
as she held back her tears. Abu Akleh reported from the Palestinian
territories for decades – covering all aspects of life under Israeli
occupation. Salma Shanaa, a Palestinian-US teacher residing in
neighbouring Virginia, said the killing of Abu Akleh on May 11 while she
was wearing a flak jacket clearly marked with the word <PRESS> was the
<ultimate injustice>.
<She has been in our house for 25 years,> Shanaa told Al Jazeera,
referring to Abu Akleh's TV appearances. <I felt like I lost a sister.
We all felt the pain deep within our hearts. Shireen is not better than
the martyrs who preceded her, but Shireen is a symbol.>
As cars drove by – with many honking their horns in support – the
attendees sang Mawtini (My Homeland), a song considered by many
Palestinians as an unofficial national anthem. Lina Musmar, a pharmacist
who was draped in a Palestinian flag, said Abu Akleh was killed while
telling the truth about the injustices in Palestine.
<It’s just very difficult to believe that she was killed like that and
the way they treated her casket at her funeral,> Musmar said.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/18/shireen-was-our-voice-abu-akleh-honoured-at-washington-vigil
Al Jazeera
13 May 2022
Freedom of the Press
<<Shireen Abu Akleh: US is no 'objective observer', advocates say
With US aid flowing to Israel, Palestine rights activists say Washington
is ‘complicit’ in Israeli abuses.
Washington, DC – The United States needs to <look in the mirror> and
reassess its unconditional support for Israel, Palestinian rights
advocates say, as calls to condition billions in annual US aid are
growing in the aftermath of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s
killing. The US State Department has urged an <immediate and thorough>
investigation into the killing of Abu Akleh, a US citizen, who was shot
dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank this week. But US-based
activists say such statements ignore Washington’s <complicity> in
Israeli human rights violations.
<There's deep, deep hypocrisy and irony to US officials calling for an
investigation when what they really need to do is look in the mirror,>
said Elias Newman, communications director at IfNotNow, a youth-led,
anti-occupation Jewish American group. <When it comes to hawkish
politicians who support unconditional support for the Israeli
government, they need to look in the mirror and see that actually, our
unconditional funding is a big factor in enabling the Israeli government
to act with impunity and carry out these human rights abuses.> President
Joe Biden and his top aides have repeatedly promised not to condition,
restrict or reduce US aid to Israel, which totals $3.8bn annually. Jinan
Deena, national organiser for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee (ADC), noted that Abu Akleh became the second US citizen to be
killed by Israeli forces this year, after 78-year-old Omar Assad died
after being detained in the West Bank in January. Deena said Palestinian
Americans such as herself do not feel protected by their own government
when they travel to visit family in Palestine. <We are Americans and we
are paying taxes, and that money is literally going not just to abuse
our families back home and Palestinians back home, but also us now,”
Deena told Al Jazeera. A lot of us are very afraid to go [to Palestine]
this year.>
....
US envoy to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield also said she was
<deeply distressed>. But Thomas-Greenfield has made it clear – even
before the US Senate confirmed her to the post last year – that
shielding Israel from criticism at the United Nations would be one of
her top priorities. Israel has been the US’s top ally in the Middle East
for decades, with presidents and legislators from both major parties
asserting their staunch commitment to the country. In addition to the
$3.8bn in US aid that Israel receives annually, this year Washington
added another $1bn to <replenish> its Iron Dome missile defence system
after a May 2021 Gaza conflict.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/13/shireen-abu-akleh-us-is-no-objective-observer-advocates-say
Opinion by Gino d'Artali: As I wrote before after the end of WW2 it was
especialy the Usa who sold out Palestinian Territory to what was to
become Israel.
And the embedded (links to) the articles:
- Mapping Shireen Abu Akleh solidarity protests;
- Shireen Abu Akleh: Who said what in US Congress on slain reporter.
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