Shireen Abu Akleh

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.

A journalist for Al Jazeera was shot and killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin early on Wednesday. Shireen Abu Akleh ...

Brig. Gen. Ran Kochav, an Israeli commander, told army radio that the two journalists were “armed with cameras” and standing near Palestinian gunmen. Abu Akleh, 51, was born in Jerusalem. She began working for Al Jazeera in 1997 and regularly reported on camera from across the Palestinian territories. The Israeli military said its forces came under attack with heavy gunfire and explosives while operating in Jenin, and that they fired back. “The soldiers did not stop shooting even after she fell. Every time I extended my hand toward Shireen, the soldiers fired at us.” The Qatar-based Al Jazeera network interrupted its broadcast to announce her death.

In a statement flashed on its channel, Al Jazeera blames Israel and says the Israeli occupation forces "deliberately" targeted and killed Shireen Abu Akleh.

The British Consulate General in Jerusalem said it is "shocked" at the death of Ms Abu Akleh, adding that "media freedom and safety of journalists are essential and must be respected". While the Palestinian health ministry said the reporters were hit by Israeli fire, the Israeli military said it is "investigating" the event and is looking into the possibility the journalists were hit by "the Palestinian gunmen". In a statement flashed on its channel, Al Jazeera blamed Israel and called on the international community to "condemn and hold the Israeli occupation forces accountable for deliberately targeting and killing our colleague, Shireen Abu Akleh". The US ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, said on Twitter: "I encourage a thorough investigation into the circumstances of her death and the injury of at least one other journalist today in Jenin." In a statement flashed on its channel, Al Jazeera blames Israel and says the Israeli occupation forces "deliberately" targeted and killed Shireen Abu Akleh. Israel's military has stepped back from claims she was hit by "Palestinian gunmen". A journalist has been shot and killed and another injured while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank.

Before the Palestinian journalist was even buried, her death is being exploited for political gain.

That would be the most appropriate memorial to a journalist who was killed doing her job. In the hours since Abu Akleh’s death, the accusations and counter-accusations have been ceaseless. In Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid asked the PA to conduct a joint autopsy to determine the cause of death, an offer that was apparently rejected out of hand. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas also got into the act, saying that he held Israel “fully responsible” for Abu Akleh’s death. “All of a sudden, they opened fire at us,” he told reporters, referring to the IDF. “They killed her in cold blood. They claimed this as proof that the Palestinians killed Abu Akleh.

Tributes paid to Al Jazeera journalist and authority on Israeli-Palestinian conflict who has been shot in West Bank.

The US ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, said he was “very sad” to learn of Abu Akleh’s death. She is a reference in the Arab world. Everyone in the street would stop and salute her for her courage and determination and unique way of telling the stories of Palestinians. Arabs cannot go to Palestine. Shireen took them there.”

Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed Wednesday while covering clashes in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was among Arab media's most prominent figures and ...

"It is the city that can raise my morale and help me fly. She was born in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem to a Palestinian Christian family. "She never tired," Al Jazeera senior international correspondent Hoda Abdel-Hamid told AFP by phone from Ukraine. "She was always there whenever anything happened...

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.

The veteran Palestinian-American journalist was a household name in the Arab world, chronicling the suffering of Palestinians for two-and-a-half decades for ...

How to get help: In the US, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. The penalty is doubled in cases of attempted mass suicide. "In difficult times, I overcame fear," Abu Akleh said in the October video. Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad will visit Iran this week in an attempt to revive the stalled talks. She is the voice of our aspiration for freedom." The country is also home to two cities with a large expat presence. At the time of her death, she was learning Hebrew to understand Israeli media narratives better, Al Jazeera said. - Background: Biden would possibly visit Al Makassed Hospital, although plans are yet to be finalized, the Israeli official added. Abu Akleh became the face of that coverage at home and around the region. - Background: Earlier this month, foreign workers forced another food delivery company to scrap plans to cut wages after walking off the job in protest. The Al Jazeera reporter was the only journalist to cover her own arrest by soldiers, Barghouti wrote. But Al Jazeera's biggest pull for audiences was arguably its coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The Al Jazeera correspondent lost her life in the city of Jenin in the West Bank where she was covering armed clashes.

Al Jazeera and Palestinian officials claim the Israeli army fired the rounds which killed her. We insist that there must be a mobilisation at the level of international courts to prosecute Shireen's killers. The National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) organised a rally in the capital city, Tunis demanding justice for Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera Palestinian-American correspondent shot and killed in the West Bank on Wednesday, May 11.

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.

Analysis of footage, images and eyewitness accounts of Al Jazeera reporter's fatal shooting debunk Israeli claim she may have been hit by Palestinian ...

We remained still for around 10 minutes to make sure they knew we were there as journalists. The footage was later posted on YouTube. The Israeli army confirmed that it had conducted an operation in Jenin's refugee camp early on Wednesday and that there was an exchange of fire between its troops and Palestinian fighters. This and the direction of fire of both of the videos of the Palestinian gunmen suggest Israeli soldiers were somewhere to the west of the gunmen. A third video taken by the graveyard shows smoke rising in the area where B’Tselem located the Palestinian gunman, in the video used by the Israelis. Three landmarks - the corner of a building (marked with a purple rectangle in the graphics below), a building with a red roof (marked with a blue circle), and what appears to be a graveyard (marked with a red circle) - help geolocate the footage to an area just north of where the footage in Gunmen Video 1 was geolocated.

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.

Colleagues praise renowned reporter, killed while covering clashes between IDF and Palestinian gunmen, as a groundbreaking woman in media.

Abu Akleh was shot in the head during a firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen in the restive West Bank city. If so, please join The Times of Israel Community. For as little as $6/month, you will: She also covered five conflicts between Israel and Gaza and the Lebanon war in 2006. She attended secondary school in East Jerusalem’s Beit Hanina, then matriculated at the Jordan University of Science and Technology to study architecture. She was born in East Jerusalem to a Palestinian Christian family. It may not be easy to change reality, but I was at least able to bring their voice to the world,” Abu Akleh said in a video taped for the Qatari channel’s 25th anniversary.

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."

Earlier today, Israeli forces killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in cold blood. Tragically, it's nothing new for Israel, which has made a ...

That the Nakba was not a single moment in history, but rather constitutes an ongoing process of violence and displacement, is the fact Israeli forces are trying — and failing — to hide. “I chose journalism to be close to the people,” Shireen Abu Akleh previously said. Last week, Israel’s high court green-lit the eviction of one thousand Palestinians from Masafer Yatta, a rural area of the South Hebron Hills home to several small Palestinian villages. Therein lies the goal: stifling the documentation of the ethnic cleansing and systematic oppression in which the Israeli forces are engaged, so that it can proceed with minimal awareness raised and zero accountability faced. In fact, one year ago this week, during Israel’s relentless pummelling of the Gaza Strip, Israeli jets flattened a building containing the offices of news organizations including Associated Press and Al Jazeera. Just last month, a formal complaint was lodged with the International Criminal Court by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, and the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) regarding Israel’s “systematic targeting” of Palestinian journalists.

The moment an Al Jazeera journalist was shot dead was caught on film, but Israeli authorities are sharing another video they say adds doubt as to who killed ...

The exact location where Ms Abu Akleh was shot is at the bottom of this long road, some distance from where the researcher emerged. Through multimedia storytelling we aim to better explain the world while also showing how our journalism is done. The Data and Forensics team is a multi-skilled unit dedicated to providing transparent journalism from Sky News. We gather, analyse and visualise data to tell data-driven stories. Ms Hanaysha is next to her, also dressed in protective clothing and holding a camera. Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett disputed those accusations, saying the shot could have been fired by a Palestinian and that "there must be a real investigation" into the death. Four seconds after the initial gunfire, more shots are fired. Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, was shot in Jenin in the West Bank on Wednesday morning while working for Al Jazeera's Arabic language channel. I consider what happened an assassination." A comparison of the two videos shows the location appears to match. The original source for the footage of the man firing down an alley appears to be a video shared by Palestinian militants. The video shows that she was shot while next to another female journalist on the outskirts of a refugee camp in the town of Jenin. Two videos are being shared online by those trying to explain how a journalist was fatally shot in the head on the outskirts of a Palestinian refugee camp.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed on Wednesday while covering an Israeli military raid in the occupied ...

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. It aired a video showing Abu Akleh lying motionless on the side of a road wall as another journalist crouches nearby and a man screams for an ambulance. The findings of its probe into Abu Akleh's death could draw new scrutiny. She was widely recognized in the West Bank and was also a U.S. citizen. One of its key arguments against the probe has been that its military justice system is capable of investigating itself. Israel said Hamas was using the building as a command center but has provided no evidence. The outcome of Israel’s military investigation will be closely watched. Israel has conducted near-daily raids in Jenin in recent weeks following a series of deadly attacks inside Israel carried out by militants from the area. He said any suggestion they were shot by militants was a “complete lie.” “Currently we do not know what was the direct cause of Shireen’s death. He said Israel asked the Palestinian medical team that performed a preliminary autopsy to hand over the fatal bullet for further examination. Palestinians gathered outside the family's house on Wednesday evening, some holding Palestinian flags and posters with the journalist's photo.

The White House on Wednesday slammed the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, calling the crime an “affront to media freedom.

Price said Israel was able to “conduct a thorough, comprehensive investigation” into the killing of Abu Akleh. Her death is a tragic loss and an affront to media freedom everywhere.— Jen Psaki (@PressSec) May 11, 2022 Watch: A wounded Al Jazeera reporter whose colleague was shot dead during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank claims Israeli forces "shot us for no reason." Israel defense minister pledges full probe into killing of reporter Shireen Abu AklehIsrael’s defense minister promised a thorough investigation of the killing of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh on Wednesday and asked that ... Middle East The State Department said Israel was able to carry out a “thorough” investigation into Abu Akleh’s killing when asked if the US would initiate its own investigation into the killing of the Palestinian-American journalist. The White House on Wednesday slammed the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, calling the crime an “affront to media freedom everywhere.”

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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Akleh was shot dead on Wednesday while covering an Israeli army raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. The Department of International ...

The Qatar-based Al Jazeera reportedly alleged that 51-year-old Akleh was shot deliberately and "in cold blood" by Israeli forces. International human rights law obligates the occupying power to allow for the freedom of expression and protests," Dirco director-general Zane Dangor said in a statement on Wednesday. Another Al Jazeera journalist, producer Ali al-Samud, was wounded.

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.

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.