Shireen Abu Akleh

Council also calls for immediate investigation into the death of the Al Jazeera journalist who was shot on Wednesday.

It said Israeli forces returned fire, and that without doing ballistic analysis, it was not able to determine who was responsible for her death. It also came amid a high rate of attacks against Palestinian journalists. Abu Akleh, an internationally respected veteran journalist for Al Jazeera, was shot by Israeli armed forces as she covered a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. She was wearing a helmet and a vest that clearly identified her as a journalist.

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Most of the time, Shireen was the one covering the news. She was magnificent. She was killed in Jenin and buried in Jerusalem. Every Palestinian village mourned her. Both on the personal and professional levels, she was great. There weren’t any clashes, not even burning tires, which was the reason we had kept going – in order to get closer to the action and cover what was happening. We were fired upon from an area above us and shots hit the tree I was standing behind from above. Back when I was young, there weren’t many news outlets, only Al-Jazeera. This channel was in every Palestinian house, we followed all the news on it. We were facing a house and an open space. We moved about 100 meters [328 feet] and then the shooting started at us. I looked at Shireen and I thought that she just fell down. I heard the shots but couldn’t imagine they were directed at us. Abu Akleh’s funeral was also met with violence as Israeli forces beat up mourners.

The two journalists were in the outskirts of Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday when they came under fire.

I dreamt to grow up and become Shireen one day,” she said as she choked back tears. That’s the great thing about Shireen: she is alive with us all the time.” After some minutes I saw blood on the ground, and that’s when I screamed.” The 51 year-old became a household name synonymous with Al Jazeera’s coverage of life under occupation during her more than two decades reporting in the Palestinian territories. They both wore protective vests marked with the word “press”. The disturbing footage shows Ms Hanysha frozen in fear as more bullets are fired in their direction.

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A second journalist, Ali Al-Samud who was working as Abu Akleh’s producer was also shot in the back and is currently in a stable condition in hospital. In a statement, Al Jazeera’s managing director, Giles Trendle expressed the channel was “shocked and saddened,” by the journalist’s death. The 51-year-old, who was a joint Palestinian and US citizen, was Al Jazeera’s Palestinian reporter. Abu Akleh was shot whilst reporting on an Israeli raid in the Jenin refugee camp. Abu Akleh was shot and killed during an Israeli raid whilst working in the town of Jenin. Mourners have came under fire from tear gas at the funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh, the Al Jazeera journalist who was shot and killed whilst working in the West Bank.

Shireen Abu Akleh's body was being brought from the town of Jenin – where she was killed by Israeli forces, according to witnesses – to Jerusalem via Nablus and ...

Abu Akleh was a widely respected correspondent who spent more than 20 years covering the harsh realities of life under Israeli military rule. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. There were also reports of stun grenades being used.

In a rare example of unity council calls for an immediate, impartial investigation into journalist's death.

The EU said it was “appalled by the violence in the St Joseph hospital compound and the level of unnecessary force exercised by Israeli police throughout the funeral procession”. Earlier, the US said it was “deeply troubled to see the images of Israeli police intruding into her funeral procession”. In a rare, unanimous statement the security council also called for “an immediate, thorough, transparent and impartial investigation into her killing”.

Israeli police violently disrupted the funeral of slain Al Jazeera journalist and Palestinian American icon Shireen Abu Akleh while the world looked on.

Abu Akleh is perhaps the most high-profile journalist to be killed there, but she is by no means the first. Israel has, for years, unofficially prohibited the expression of Palestinian identity and culture in occupied East Jerusalem out of fear that such public expressions could undermine its attempt to control the society and derail its plan to demographically alter Jerusalem’s ethnic composition and skew it in favor of the Jewish state. Israel’s wishful thinking is that by prohibiting symbols and expression of Palestinian identity and nationality, it can cause Palestinian character to be permanently ripped out of the city’s ancient fabric. Israeli police wanted to deny Abu Akleh’s family and the public from publicly grieving the national icon and journalistic hero because they didn’t want her funeral to serve as a reminder of the national cause for liberation, dignity and independence. Video shows police attacking mourners and pallbearers, beating them with batons, and at one point, almost causing pallbearers to drop the coffin. As I have been told by colleagues close to the family, those police had communicated to the family that they did not want a public procession out of fear it would be a public disturbance.

Pro-Palestine Jewish organisation Jüdische Stimme arranged the Friday vigil for Shirine Abu Akleh, only to be informed by police that their commemoration ...

The vigil for Shireen Abu Akleh... is considered by us to be an alternative demonstration." Israeli assaults on mourners almost caused the casket to topple over. Israeli forces attacked a funeral procession for— The New Arab (@The_NewArab) #ShireenAbuAklehin Jerusalem. Israeli soldiers first raided the hospital where her body was rested and then prevented mourners from following the coffin. the Berlin police today banned several assemblies reported for the coming days, as well as the holding of any replacement event in Berlin until May 15, 2022," the statement read. The police said "alternative demonstrations" were any events they considered to be replacements for the banned rallies. German police blocked a vigil meant to take place in Berlin on Friday to commemorate Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed by Israeli forces as she reported in the occupied West Bank earlier this week.

Here's what audio analysis, video footage and sight lines can tell us about the killing of the Al Jazeera journalist in Jenin.

Preliminary forensic audio analysis of a video captured in the aftermath of Abu Akleh’s killing also appears to suggest the gunfire originated roughly 177 to 184 metres away, assuming that the weapon and round used are consistent with those seen being used by the IDF and armed Palestinian groups in the area. The leading vehicle in the IDF armoured vehicle convoy seen in the bodycam footage was located approximately 190 metres from the spot where Abu Akleh was shot. This would also likely have provided a line of sight to where Abu Akleh and her colleague were situated if they stepped out from behind the tree and away from the wall. The cemetery and its wall have the effect of reducing the width of the road to a single narrow lane of traffic. The leading vehicle in the convoy was located approximately 190 metres south from the spot where Abu Akleh was shot, while the rear vehicle was located approximately 250 metres away. The men appear to be in the midst of a firefight. It also appears to suggest that the two groups were engaged in a firefight at around the time that Abu Akleh was killed. This recording allowed Bellingcat and others to confirm the geolocation of Video Two to an alleyway approximately 270 metres from the site where Abu Akleh was shot and killed. This means that it is not possible that the individual seen firing in Video Two could have killed Abu Akleh with these shots, despite the social media implications to the contrary. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister initially suggested that Abu Akleh was killed as a result of the shooting in this video. The site of the shooting can be geolocated to a spot on Balat Al Shuhada street in the west of the city. This would also enable a further narrowing down of possibilities as to the position of troops at the time of Abu Akleh’s death.

Israeli police say the investigation will be concluded in the coming days, adding that the organisation would "draw lessons from the incident".

Israel’s military said earlier Friday that she was killed during an exchange of fire with Palestinian militants, and that it couldn’t determine the source of the shot that killed her. The PA has refused, saying it will conduct its own investigation and send the results to the International Criminal Court, which is already investigating possible Israeli war crimes. “Every family deserves to lay their loved ones to rest in a dignified and unimpeded manner,” he tweeted. As helmeted riot police approached, they hit pallbearers, causing one man to lose control of the casket as it dropped toward the ground. The prosecutor said the investigation would continue. They also illustrated the deep sensitivities over east Jerusalem — which is claimed by both Israel and the Palestinians and has sparked repeated rounds of violence.

Israeli police say they will hold an investigation "into the events that ensued during the funeral" procession of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on ...

Blinken offered "his deep condolences for their loss," the official said. "When Omer Bar-Lev was appointed as Israel's Public Security Minister, he issued a directive limiting confiscation of Palestinian flags from demonstrators to cases where there is an immediate risk of disturbance of the peace. "Israel Police prepared yesterday to facilitate a calm and dignified funeral for journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and had coordinated the funeral arrangements with her family. I loved Shireen. She was the voice of all Palestinians," she said. These lessons will be presented to the police commissioner and then to me," he added. showed officers striking mourners with batons, forcibly taking down Palestinian flags, and arresting individuals carrying the flag.

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Our news and analysis is available to everyone – which is why we need your support. Shireen was our home and we will always resist dispossession of our homes. To fight for justice for Shireen, is to fight for liberation. Even in her death Shireen continues her work to show the futility of the occupation, its disregard of human life, and even more so, its fragility. They refuse to allow her to rest in peace, they invaded the sanctity of her send off. It reminded me of Sana’a, and it reminded us that liberation is collective. She reminded us that we were away from our homes but our goal is to return. Today and for the past three days, my childhood was re-ignited, Shireen’s voice filling our home and constant watching of Al Jazeera following her funeral services and processions. Her voice formed the intricate fabrics of our childhoods, miles apart from war-torn Yemen. During the second intifada we saw her on our screens more and more, she reminded us that even our safety is temporary. In my parents’ Nairobi home, this was my first reminder that we are living, but this isn’t our home. All through my childhood, we only had access to the Arabsat satellite dishes, and all we knew was Arabic TV. At the time me and many of my friends and cousins were more interested in watching MBC 3, a channel of joy through cartoons and animation. We were introduced to her through gatherings of community, where family would flock into the TV room to watch the news.

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Only when the United States decides to end its complicity in Israel’s crimes will there be a real possibility of justice for Abu Akleh and the rest of the Palestinian people. With all the media attention, it’s possible that this time Israel will feel obligated to charge Abu Akleh’s killer, and the individual soldier might even receive a sentence. The Israeli military’s knowledge of its impunity has been on full display since the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh. The day after the journalist was killed, they raided her family’s home and forcibly removed the Palestinian flag flying outside. Palestinian and Israeli civil society organizations have documented the deaths of 155 Palestinian children from live ammunition or crowd-control weapons since 2013, but only three indictments on criminal charges have been issued against Israeli soldiers for those killings. “We are not certain how she was killed, but we want to get to the bottom of this incident and to uncover the truth as much as we can,” Gantz told reporters. The world, including the United States, has rightfully been in an uproar over the callous killing of the Palestinian American fifty-one-year-old veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by the Israeli military.

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“This is an attack on the truth … And not only for journalists here, but journalists all over the world. What journalists in Palestine are doing is the main protection for the Palestinian people.” And that is because of the brilliance that is ethical journalism.” “Just her being there on the frontlines, it meant that there was some kind of hope. As an independent and local nonprofit, our news is accessible to all, regardless of what they can afford. They said that Akleh was killed during the raid but that “it is unclear what exactly led to her death.” Our reporters hold powerful interests accountable to protect your quality of life. “Israel blatantly attacked the press. “She was our voice in Palestine because we could not see the truth here. “And you’re constantly told, ‘Oh, it’s too complicated.’ You can turn to honest ethical journalism and you’ll see that it’s actually not complicated. It’s part of our earliest awareness of our identity as Palestinians.“Rania Sbaita, 22-year-old Irvine resident and Cal State Long Beach student The Israeli Defense Force says it’s not clear how she died but say they’re investigating the killing.