Breaking: Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh killed by Israeli forces in Jenin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies_and_criticism

 

I'm quite familiar with them. Are posting that to provide motive as to why the IDF would assassinate and murder a reporter working for Al_Jazeera?

 

Al Jazeera has a history of ties to Islamists and terrorists and anti-Israel bias. The fact that you would just assume they would be the single source of truth here is quite telling.

Right now, we just don't know.

 

There isn't just a single source. There are three witnesses. I believe that only one of which was from Al Jazeera. Definitely one of the other witnesses did not work for Al Jazeera.

There is also the fact that IDF posted a video they claimed was from the area and time of the incident showing Palestinian gunmen firing. Yet, it turns out that the location in the video was far away from where the IDF claimed it was.

If you believe that a man that was shot in the back by the sniper fire would lie about who shot him, that's up to you. It may be possible, but I haven't seen anything that shows he's lying.

Why would the IDF lie about a video tape they released if they weren't covering something up? I haven't seen any explanation of that at all.

I agree we don't have all of the facts. But the ones we do have don't bolster IDF's side of the event.

 

Calls grow for independent probe into Abu Akleh killing: Live | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

HRW: Abu Akleh death not a ‘one-off event’
Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine director for Human Rights Watch, said Abu Akleh’s death by Israeli forces is not unusual.

“We know that Israeli forces systematically have used excessive force,” he told Al Jazeera.

“This is an event that needs to be understood in the context of this systemic practice and the killings of many other Palestinian journalists.”

Shakir went on to describe Israeli investigations as a “white-washed mechanism”.

“That is the assessment that’s been reached by human rights organisations including Israeli’s premier human rights organisation B’Tselem,” he said. “When news of crimes is reported, Israeli forces regularly say they’ll investigate. The reality is there is no accountability for those sorts of abuses when it comes to actions by the Israeli authorities.”

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Shireen Abu Akleh: Al Jazeera reporter killed by Israeli gunfire | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

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“The first bullet hit me and the second bullet hit Shireen … there was no Palestinian military resistance at all at the scene.”

Shatha Hanaysha, a local journalist who was standing next to Abu Akleh when she was shot, also told Al Jazeera that there had been no confrontations between Palestinian fighters and the Israeli army. She said the group of journalists had been directly targeted.

“We were four journalists, we were all wearing vests, all wearing helmets,” Hanaysha said. “The [Israeli] occupation army did not stop firing even after she collapsed. I couldn’t even extend my arm to pull her because of the shots being fired. The army was adamant on shooting to kill.”

The details of Abu Akleh’s killing are still emerging, but videos of the incident show that she was shot in the head, said Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim.

“What we know for now is that the Palestinian health ministry has announced her death. Shireen Abu Akleh was covering the events unfolding in Jenin, specifically, an Israeli raid on the city, which is north of the occupied West Bank, when she was hit by a bullet to the head,” Ibrahim said, speaking from the Palestinian city of Ramallah.

In her last email to the network, Abu Akleh sent a message to Al Jazeera’s Ramallah bureau at 6:13am (3:13 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.”

Separately on Wednesday in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said an 18 year old Palestinian, Thaer Mislet-Yazouri, was shot dead by Israeli forces in the town of al-Bireh, near the illegal settlement of Psagot.

Shock and grief
Abu Akleh, who was a dual Palestinian-American national, was one of Al Jazeera’s first field correspondents, joining the network in 1997.

Grief and sorrow filled the Al Jazeera offices in downtown Ramallah as the news quickly spread and dozens of colleagues, fellow journalists, friends, and Palestinian figures poured in, including Palestinian politicians Hanan Ashrawi and Khalida Jarrar.

Palestinian MP Khalida 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,” Jarrar told Al Jazeera, 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,” said Jarrar.

The Palestinian presidency condemned the killing, saying in a statement that it holds the Israeli occupation responsible.

Palestinian Authority (PA) government spokesperson Ibrahim Melhem described it as a “comprehensive crime committed against a well-known journalist”.

“The killing was deliberate… There will be an autopsy by Palestinian medics, which will be followed by a report including all the details of the killing,” Melhem told Al Jazeera.

“However, all the witnesses present at the scene of the crime ensures that it was an Israeli sniper that committed the crime in a deliberate way.”

Yair Lapid, the Israeli foreign minister, said Tel Aviv was offering a “joint pathological investigation” into Abu Akleh’s “sad death”. He added that “journalists must be protected in conflict zones”.

One of Abu Akleh’s former colleagues, Mohammad Hawwash, who knew her for more than 25 years, said she was a “real journalist”.

“Shereen was a professional and unbiased journalist who conveyed the reality and events as they are,” Hawwash, 70, told Al Jazeera.

Palestine TV correspondent Christine Rinawi, who was often with Abu Akleh in the field in Jerusalem, said the late reporter was a “professor in the world of journalism.”

“We would meet for hours in the field, we would be arrested together, we were wounded together. Shireen was a message throughout all her journalistic life, and even in her martyrdom, she is a message,” Rinawi told Al Jazeera.

“This is a sad day, a black day. There are no words to explain the pain that we are all going through,” she added.

The Israeli military said its soldiers had come under attack with heavy gunfire and explosives while operating in Jenin, and that they fired back. It added that it was “investigating the event”.

Al Jazeera’s offices in the Gaza Strip, in a building that also housed the Associated Press, were bombed by Israeli forces during an offensive a year ago, and Palestinian and international journalists say they have been regularly targeted by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem.

Many in Palestine and abroad took to social media to express their shock and grief.

“Israeli occupation forces assassinated our beloved journalist Shireen Abu Akleh while covering their brutality in Jenin this morning. Shireen was most prominent Palestinian journalist and a close friend,” wrote Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Kingdom.​

 

Not a good look

 

New Evidence in the death of the journalist who was an American Citizen.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/midd...nin-killing-investigation-cmd-intl/index.html

 

Whoever is responsible should be brought to justice.

 

Obviously if we arm everyone and their skinny little kids then it'll make all the "bad guys" think twice, and no armed violence will happen

Peace in the Middle East, the NRA Way

 

Update on this story ...

Israeli army says soldier likely killed Shireen Abu Akleh (nbcnews.com)

Israeli army says soldier likely killed Palestinian-American reporter
The military’s top legal officer won't launch a criminal probe into the death of Shireen Abu Akleh, meaning neither the soldier nor anyone in his chain of command will face punishment.

JERUSALEM — The Israeli military said Monday a soldier likely killed veteran Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in errant fire, according to its investigation into the incident.

A senior military official said the military’s top legal officer will not be launching a criminal probe into the death of the Al Jazeera journalist, meaning neither the soldier nor anyone in his chain of command will face punishment.

In a briefing to reporters, the official said the military could not conclusively determine where the fire emanated from, saying there may have been Palestinian gunmen in the same area as the Israeli soldier. But he said the soldier killed the journalist “with very high likelihood” and did so by mistake.

Abu Akleh was killed in May while covering Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinians blamed Israel for the killing. Israel initially said she may have been killed by militant fire, but later said a soldier may have hit her by mistake during an exchange of fire.

The official did not explain why witness accounts and videos showed limited militant activity in the area, as well as no gunfire in the vicinity until the barrage that struck Abu Akleh and wounded another reporter.

The results of the probe, announced nearly four months after the killing, largely align with those of several independent investigations completed much earlier.

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Not much difference that when the Saudis killed that other reporter huh

Rocket River

 

Photo bomb! (pun intended)

 

There's a better chance of the Rockets winning 5 championships in a row before this never ending land dispute will end

 

Pffft typical around the world would defend Israel. Now that the truth is out Israel shot an American journalist.

It was quite obvious the Israeli forces did it. The group that is literally oppressing the Palestine people should not b getting the benefit of doubt.

Literally commit human violations daily. But the US ain't gonna do anything. Money talks.