New evidence suggests Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in targeted attack by Israeli forces

[Nevilledog]

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https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/24/middleeast/shireen-abu-akleh-jenin-killing-investigation-cmd-intl/index.html

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(CNN)Several shots ring out in quick succession, cutting through a clear, blue spring morning in Jenin, in the West Bank. Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack.

The cameraman filming the scene scrambles backwards to take cover behind a low concrete wall. Then a man cries out in Arabic: "Injured! Shireen, Shireen, oh man, Shireen! Ambulance!"

When the camera operator pans around the corner, Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh can be seen lying motionless, face down on the ground as another Palestinian reporter, Shatha Hanaysha, crouches down beside her, using a tree trunk for cover. Hanaysha reaches out and tries to rouse her as gunshots continue. There's no response. Both women are wearing helmets and blue protective vests marked "Press."

In the moments that follow, a man in a white T-shirt makes several attempts to move Abu Akleh, but is forced back repeatedly by gunfire. Finally, after a few long minutes, he manages to drag her body from the street.

The shaky video, filmed by Al Jazeera cameraman Majdi Banura, captures the scene when Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old Palestinian-American was killed by a bullet to the head at around 6:30 a.m. on May 11. She had been standing with a group of journalists near the entrance of Jenin refugee camp, where they had come to cover an Israeli raid. While the footage does not show Abu Akleh being shot, eyewitnesses told CNN that they believe Israeli forces on the same street fired deliberately on the reporters in a targeted attack. All of the journalists were wearing protective blue vests that identified them as members of the news media. ​

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[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. K&R

[malaise]

2. That was known from day one despite attempts

to suggest otherwise.
Apparently some journalists' lives are less important than others

[Nevilledog]

5. Yes. I was told, very definitively, that the Palestinians were the shooters.

[Tetrachloride]

3. "forced back repeatedly by gunfire "

630 am. plenty of light.

what we don’t have are names of the soldiers.

Israeli soldiers. Names. Now.

[2naSalit]

4. Ya think?

And then they disrupted her funeral and tried to co-opt it before that attack.

[Celerity]

6. K & R for visibility