'Shireen Abu Akleh is only the latest journalist killed while reporting on Israel's occupation of Palestine.'
On Wednesday, Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was reporting for Al Jazeera on Palestinians living under Israeli occupation, as she had for over 25 years. On that morning, she was covering an Israeli army assault on the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. Shireen and another reporter were against a stone wall, wearing blue helmets and blue flak jackets clearly emblazoned with the word"PRESS." Shireen was killed by a single shot to the head.
Shireen was a beloved journalist, known throughout the Arabic-speaking world for her decades of tireless reporting on Palestine. As news of her death spread, crowds turned out in a spontaneous outpouring of anger and grief. People gathered outside her home in the Beit Hanina neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli soldiers then raided the home in an act both pointless and cruel. In Gaza City, mourners gathered and lit candles amidst the rubble of what was the al-Jalaa tower.
"Attacks on journalists in order to squelch the story at the root are a part of colonial information control.
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