Shireen 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.”

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.

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.

Colleagues accuse Israeli Defences Forces of deliberately targeting reporter but Israel claims 'indiscriminate' Palestinian fire was the likely cause.

Some of the assailants have come from Jenin. The city has been a main target of Israeli arrest raids in the West Bank that have often sparked clashes. The Israeli military said its troops came under heavy fire during the Jenin operation. while conducting her journalistic duty, clearly wearing [a] press jacket that identifies her a journalist.” One bullet hit me and another hit Shireen. They killed her in cold blood.” Tom Nides, US ambassador to Israel, wrote on Twitter: “Very sad to learn of the death of American and Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. I encourage a thorough investigation into the circumstances of her death and the injury of at least one other journalist today in Jenin.” The Israeli foreign ministry said Israel “will be conducting a thorough investigation” and it called on the Palestinian Authority to cooperate “to get to the truth”.

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 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.

Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was fatally shot while covering an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin on ...

She was 51, according to the university. "Shireen fell while she was wearing press (gear) and even with that the people who tried to save her were shot at, the targeting was clear against Shireen and against us as journalistic teams." Al-Samudi said later Wednesday that there were no Palestinian gunmen in the area at the time. "The possibility that journalists were hit, possibly by Palestinian gunfire, is being investigated. The prime minister's office released a video showing people running in the Jenin refugee camp, shouting about a soldier being hit. Akleh's producer, Ali Al-Samudi, was also shot and is in a stable condition, the ministry said.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

Eyewitnesses say Israeli soldiers 'assassinated' Al Jazeera journalist but PM claims Palestinians may be responsible.

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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.

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.

Thousands of mourners gathered in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday to mourn slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, as the Palestinian ...

"We rejected, and continue to reject, the joint investigation with the Israeli occupation authorities because they committed the crime and we do not trust them," said Abbas, standing before Abu Akleh's coffin. Journalists, diplomats, religious leaders, and officials including Arab members of Israel's parliament, the Knesset, attended the memorial procession at the Palestinian Authority President's residence, which saw Abu Akleh's Palestinian-flag-draped coffin carried in as honor guards played musical instruments. Al Jazeera has accused Israeli security forces of deliberately targeting and killing Abu Akleh, 51 -- one of the Arab world's most prominent journalists.