Shireen Abu aqleh

Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old U.S. citizen, had been covering a military raid on the Jenin refugee camp "when she was shot in the face by a single bullet, ...

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Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian reporter for the broadcaster's Arabic language channel who is also a U.S. citizen, was shot and died soon afterward.

In November of that year, AP cameraman Rashed Rashid was covering a protest near the Gaza frontier when he was shot in the left ankle, apparently by Israeli fire. He was wearing protective gear that clearly identified him as a journalist, and was standing with other journalists some 600 meters (660 yards) away from the Israeli border when he was hit. Israel said Hamas was using the building as a command center but has provided no evidence. Relations between Israeli forces and the media, especially Palestinian journalists, are strained. He said the military’s suggestion that they were shot by militants was a “complete lie.” Hundreds of Palestinians, including several masked gunmen, marched through Jenin in a funeral procession, carrying Abu Akleh's body draped with a Palestinian flag and a blue press vest. Shaza Hanaysheh, another Palestinian journalist among the reporters, also said there were no clashes or shooting in the immediate area. Nearly 3 million Palestinians live in the territory under Israeli military rule. The Israeli military said its forces came under attack with heavy gunfire and explosives while operating in Jenin, and that they fired back. Because no Israelis were hurt, he said that suggested the gunmen had shot a journalist instead. The Qatar-based network, which has long had strained relations with Israel, interrupted its broadcast to announce her death. Her death reverberated across the region and alighted social media.

Killing of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh by Israeli forces triggers outpouring of condemnation and condolences.

“It’s, of course, not a one-off event, we know that Israeli forces systematically have used excessive force. Journalists must be allowed to work safely and freely. I urge a rapid, thorough and transparent investigation.” Silencing voices of those who tell stories of oppressed people is part of a deliberate strategy employed by Israel & India in Palestine & Occupied Kashmir. The Israeli military said its forces came under attack with heavy gunfire and explosives while operating in Jenin, and that they fired back. I am deeply saddened by the tragic death of Al Jazeera’s@ShireenNasriin Jenin this morning. “Attacks against Palestinian journalists in Israel have been condemned by the NUJ and International Federation of Journalists and action must be taken by Israeli authorities to ensure the safety and protection of journalists in the country,” the NUJ said. The international community must act to end #Israel #apartheid. https://t.co/RMitcXtJPG This state sponsored Israeli terrorism must STOP, unconditional support to Israel must END.pic.twitter.com/Zg5QZkJ2bx Her death is an affront to media freedom everywhere,” he added. Like other countries, Afghanistan’s foreign ministry paid tribute to the Palestinian veteran journalist and said in a statement: “We condemn the Israeli occupation’s deliberate killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Palestine.” She was covering their attack in Jenin refugee camp.

Israel launched a social media campaign to deflect blame for the killing of renowned Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

That, several activists noted, was quite different from an earlier statement from an Israeli military spokesperson who said that the journalists who were shot had been “ armed with cameras.” IDF publishes a video of troops operating in Jenin earlier this morning, under heavy gunfire. Israeli govt has circulated a video of a gunman firing down an alley.— Dimi Reider (@reider) @btselemgeolocated the footage. Screams of “Ambulance”. One man tries to retrieve Shireen, others scream at him to move back from Israeli sniper range. Mediation was successful — but it fell apart anyway. Clearly depicts continued Israeli firing after Shireen Abu Akleh went down.

Shireen Abu Akleh covered occupied Palestine for two decades. She was killed doing her job.

“This underlying daily reality of apartheid and the cold violence of structural repression leads to the hot violence of bloodshed and the killing of Palestinians.” Israel tends to stretch out the investigations as long as possible and in the end fails to hold military leaders to account, according to El-Ad. “Israel treats every incident as an extraordinarily exceptional occurrence, and the investigations always push the responsibility down to the lowest level of soldiers,” he told me. The Israeli foreign ministry shared a video of Palestinian gunmen active in the city Wednesday to back up these claims. Israel has even designated the premier Palestinian rights organization Al-Haq as a terrorist organization, in what experts called retribution for Al-Haq’s documentation of violations on the ground. “Without a serious investigation, we will not reach the truth.” That likely has something to do with the Israeli government not having a good track record of investigating its own crimes. Ali Samoudi, her producer, who was also shot and is currently in the hospital, said Israeli forces shot her. Israeli military spokesperson Ran Kochav said, “They’re armed with cameras, if you’ll permit me to say so,” and in so doing drew a not-subtle comparison between the work of journalism and that of violence. “It fits a pattern, a pattern of unlawful killing, and also a pattern of targeting journalists and human rights defenders.” Israel attributed Abu Akleh’s death to Palestinian gunmen, saying she was caught in the crossfire of clashes. According to the Associated Press, she was brought to the hospital, where she died. For over two decades, journalist Shireen Abu Akleh covered human rights abuses in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Israeli forces shot Abu Akleh in the head while she was on assignment in Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

“In disbelief,” wrote Salem Barahmeh, a Palestinian activist. Shireen was most prominent Palestinian journalist and a close friend. Shireen was a message throughout all her journalistic life, and even in her martyrdom, she is a message,” Rinawi told Al Jazeera. “Israeli occupation forces assassinated our beloved journalist Shireen Abu Akleh while covering their brutality in Jenin this morning. Israeli occupation forces assassinated our beloved journalist Shireen Abu Akleh while covering their brutality in Jenin this morning. The Israeli military said its soldiers had come under attack with heavy gunfire and explosives while operating in Jenin, and that they fired back. “The killing was deliberate… “What we know for now is that the Palestinian health ministry has announced her death. On the way there – I will bring you news as soon as the picture becomes clear.” It is a crime, it is all clear – intentional and direct targeting. He said that her body was transferred for an autopsy based on an order from the public prosecution. She said the group of journalists had been directly targeted.

Senior officials from across the United Nations are calling for an investigation into the killing on Wednesday of well-known Al Jazeera correspondent ...

I call on the relevant authorities to investigate this crime and bring those responsible to justice.” Secretary-General António Guterres was appalled by the killing and echoed the call for the relevant authorities to conduct an independent and transparent investigation, according to a statement issued by his Spokesperson. Impunity must end.” Media workers should never be targeted,” said Mr. Wennesland. “We urge an independent, transparent investigation into her killing. Ms. Azouley recalled that UNESCO works to raise awareness about the need to protect journalists, notably through the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of journalists and the Issue of Impunity.

The network and Palestinian officials said journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli fire. Israel said Palestinian gunmen may have been ...

Abu Akleh was among the most high-profile Palestinian journalists and a veteran of covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the over two decades since, her voice, face and reportage became a mainstay for Palestinian audiences. Ahmad Al Husari, a 47-year-old produce vendor, said Israeli soldiers broke through the door to his house about 5 a.m. His hallway was pocked with bullet holes and covered in glass. “A sniper from somewhere shot Shireen in the head. “The house was at the top of the camp; we were far below,” he said, referring to the Jenin refugee camp. By Wednesday afternoon, fresh flowers and olive branches already covered the drying pool of blood where she fell. “We don’t put ourselves in the line of fire. A Jenin field researcher from B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, shared a map with reporters marking the location of Abu Akleh’s killing and the location of events depicted in the video distributed by Israeli officials. They were near Israeli military vehicles, he said, and they moved slowly to make sure the soldiers could identify them as reporters. During the operation, he said, “armed Palestinians shot in an inaccurate, indiscriminate and uncontrolled manner.” “To uncover the truth, there must be a real investigation, and the Palestinians are currently preventing that. He had been working with Abu Akleh on Wednesday as a producer, he said.

We lost yet another revered Palestinian icon to the Israeli occupation.

All who knew her would speak fondly of her amazing spirit, her open heart, and her exemplary courage and professionalism in the line of duty. She was one of the first, who inspired a whole new generation of journalists to tell the story of Palestine, and over the years she always remained one of the most dedicated to the job. I was shy and felt embarrassed, but I still remember how she greeted me, speaking gently to a seven-year-old who wanted to grow up to be a brave journalist like her and my father. One day, I had insisted on joining my father, who was also a journalist, in visiting al-Muqata’a, the headquarters of the late Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat. She had a grandstanding in the local journalistic community. I felt safe in her presence. She spoke from Palestine, and was heard by the entire world. She was a hero to me. For me, she was much, much more than a professional role model. It was a notification from a Telegram channel called “Martyrs of Palestine”. I wasn’t shocked. She was loved and respected by all. Shireen Abu Akleh was an icon in Palestine and the Arab world.

Advocates say US should not allow Israel to investigate itself for killing of second American citizen this year.

“He will work to ensure that Palestinians and Israelis enjoy equal measures of freedom, security, prosperity, and democracy.” However, Palestinian rights advocates say Biden has done little – other than resuming some humanitarian aid to Palestinians – to change the policies of his predecessor Donald Trump on Israel-Palestine. “Those responsible for Shireen’s killing should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Price told reporters. But since then, next to nothing has been said by US officials about the killing of the elderly American citizen. What will they do next? On Wednesday, Price said repeatedly when pressed by reporters at a State Department briefing that Israel has the “wherewithal and the capabilities to conduct a thorough, comprehensive investigation” into the killing of Abu Akleh.

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 ...

She got in the way. It goes like this: We will never know who shot Abu Akleh in the face. She knew the risks. She was shot in the face. Maybe an armed Israeli soldier, not an “armed” Palestinian – are there any other kind? Damn. That meant powerful people and institutions who normally do not give a damn when Palestinians are murdered had to say something since Abu Akleh was an American. She was admired and respected because she told the truth about the cruelty Palestinians suffer and endure every day. An Al Jazeera producer, who survived, was shot in the back. Late Wednesday, an Israeli general said, well, maybe Abu Akleh was not the victim of Palestinian on Palestinian violence. Abu Akleh’s body lay on the side of a road, next to a wall. In the face. She did it with grace, patience and resilience despite the indignities, horrors and dangers.

A prominent Palestinian-American journalist was killed in the West Bank and her network blames Israeli forces. Israel says it's possible Palestinian gunmen ...

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The Palestinian Authority said it would not give Israeli officials the bullet that killed Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank during an Israeli raid ...

We go and we try to find where we can stand and how to protect the team with me before I think about how I am going to go up on the screen and what I am going to say.” She soon became a household name among Palestinians and Arabs across the Middle East, inspiring many to follow in her path. She spent time in the United States when she was younger and obtained U.S. citizenship through family on her mother’s side, who lived in New Jersey, friends and colleagues said. It was not the biggest or political stories that most interested Ms. Abu Akleh, but the smaller ones that showed how people lived, said Wessam Hammad, a news producer with Al Jazeera, who worked with her for 17 years. She always put herself in danger just to convey the stories of Palestinians.” Such a concern also kept Palestinians from across the occupied West Bank and inside Israel from attending the funeral, she said. She was a symbol, and she lived inside all of our homes.” The bullet that killed Ms. Abu Akleh has become the focus of two competing narratives about the circumstances of her death. “When we saw that Shireen had been assassinated, we all felt it, in every Palestinian home,” said Thuraya Elayan, a 66-year-old Ramallah resident. She and several other journalists at the scene were wearing blue flak jackets and helmets marked with the word “Press.” Mr. al-Sheikh also accused Israeli soldiers of killing Ms. Abu Akleh, dismissing Israeli claims that the journalist may have been hit by Palestinian fire. He also awarded her the Star of Jerusalem, or Al-Quds Star, an honor typically bestowed on ministers, ambassadors and members of Parliament.

Abu Akleh, a Palestinian American, had been covering a military raid on the Jenin refugee camp "when she was shot in the face by a single bullet, ...

Against that backdrop, the Israeli government is trying to be sensitive to the anger of its citizens, even as the leadership struggles politically to survive. It acknowledges that its soldiers opened fire, but it said that only happened after "tens of Palestinian gunmen fired at and hurled explosive devices toward the soldiers." This past weekend, a Palestinian axe attack killed three Israelis. And on Wednesday, Palestinian officials said Israeli troops had killed another Palestinian. (Editor's note: NPR is a member of the organization.) It said the TV correspondent had been "assassinated in cold blood" after she was targeted by the Israeli forces. The posting seemed to imply the gunman's bullets might have struck the journalists. Hours after her death, mourners came to pay their respects as Abu Akleh's body was moved from a hospital to be prepared for burial. The video does not show whether the person firing hit anyone, or where the bullets may have landed. Al Jazeera producer Ali Samoudi was also shot while covering the raid. "We stood together in a collective way as journalists, then we started moving. The Foreign Press Association in Israel and the Palestinian territories says it is "appalled and deeply shocked" by the killing of Abu Akleh. It also said the investigation into her death should be immediate and transparent. Israel's military said it "is investigating the event and looking into the possibility that journalists were hit by the Palestinian gunmen."

Media outlets ignored Israel's role in Abu Akleh's death, according to social media users and commentators.

She “was [not] killed” by aliens, she was killed by Israeli forces. .@APreporting that the iconic Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh “was killed by gunfire” is unethical journalism. If a journalist was targeted and killed by Russian military forces in Ukraine, the US media would report it as an assassination and stir outrage. “If a journalist was targeted and killed by Russian military forces in Ukraine, the US media would report it as an assassination and stir outrage,” he tweeted. “Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was murdered by Israeli soldiers. Kevin Gosztola criticised Western media outlets for the difference in their approaches to the conflicts in Ukraine and Palestine, and said that Abu Akleh was “owed coverage that doesn’t whitewash her death”. “Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed by an Israeli sniper while reporting on an Israeli military raid of a refugee camp,” she tweeted. Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed by an Israeli sniper while reporting on an Israeli military raid of a refugee camp. Correction: An earlier tweet misstated Al Jazeera’s comments about the death of Shireen Abu Akleh. The network said she was killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Jenin; it did not say she was killed during clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian gunmen. “She ‘was [not] killed’ by aliens, she was killed by Israeli forces. The New York Times also released a correction for “misstating” Al Jazeera’s statement on Abu Akleh’s killing, after initially reporting incorrectly that Al Jazeera had said Abu Akleh was killed in “clashes”. The killing of Al Jazeera’s Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank has created an uproar as commentators and social media users criticise Western media outlets for “whitewashed” reporting that appeared to shy away from mentioning that Israeli forces had killed the seasoned reporter.