…from Al Jazeera

[ Editor’s Note: Now we have the IDF shooting media people who are filming protests so that they cannot film the protest anymore. As they were in a group of five and as multiple shots were used, there can be no claim of an accidental discharge or stray bullet.

Why did the Israelis do this? Simply because they know they can, and nothing will be done about it. It is unthinkable that its troops would do this on their own volition without prior approval.

In this undated photo provided by Al Jazeera Media Network, Shireen Abu Akleh, a journalist for Al Jazeera network, stands next to a TV camera in an area where the Dome of the Rock shrine at Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem is seen at left in the background. Abu Akleh, a well-known Palestinian female reporter for the broadcaster’s Arabic language channel, was shot and killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin early Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (Al Jazeera Media Network via AP)

Israeli officials have been doing this stuff so long, it’s just another day at the office for them. Some slight protest might be issued by the US, but certainly no sanctions, no US aid canceled, no trips to the US by Israeli military officials. Business will continue to go on like this never happened.



Flip the coin to where we have the same thing happen to two Israeli journalists and watch the shitstorm that would flow through world media about a new holocaust being attempted.

I would judge the likelihood of the Israeli military not knowing who did this to be zero. They have a long history of carefully monitoring such events, so if something happens, then they have a record of it.

The good news with the bad event below is that it sure as hell will not be swept under the table. It’s a PR disaster for the IDF and the Israeli government… Jim W. Dean ]

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More News Headlines on incident

  • Shireen Abu Akleh remembered as one of Arab world’s leading journalists.
Al Jazeera jounalist Shireen Abu Akleh was widely repected throughout the Arab World, and hence a possible big target for someone
  • American ambassador to the UN calls Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing ‘really horrifying’; State Department spokesperson says ‘those responsible must be held accountable’
  • Abbas says reporter’s death will go to the ICC so Israel doesn’t ‘go unpunished’.
  • At memorial event for Shireen Abu Akleh, PA leader says he doesn’t trust Israel, won’t cooperate on probe.
  • srael continues to urge joint investigation to find who fired fatal shot.
  • Minister on probe into reporter’s death: ‘Israel’s credibility not the highest’.
  • Hundreds gather in Israeli cities to protest death of Al Jazeera reporter

First published May 12, 2022

Ramallah, Occupied West Bank – Israeli forces have shot dead Al Jazeera’s journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank, according to witnesses and the Palestinian health ministry.

Abu Akleh, a longtime TV correspondent for Al Jazeera Arabic, was killed on Wednesday while covering Israeli army raids in the city of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank.

She was rushed to a hospital in Jenin in critical condition, where she was declared dead shortly after, at 7:15am (4:15 GMT), according to the Palestinian health ministry.

Abu Akleh was wearing a press vest and was standing with other journalists when she was killed. Another Al Jazeera journalist, Ali al-Samoudi, was also wounded by a bullet in the back at the scene. He is now in stable condition.

The head of the medicine department at al-Najah University in Nablus confirmed that Abu Akleh was shot in the head. He said that her body was transferred for an autopsy based on an order from the public prosecution.

Abu Akleh’s body was carried out of the university coated in a Palestinian flag, after which she will be taken to the Istishari Hospital in Ramallah.

An official funeral will be held for her tomorrow morning at the Palestinian presidency headquarters in Ramallah.

‘No confrontations’

Al-Samoudi and other journalists at the scene said there were no Palestinian fighters present when the journalists were shot, directly disputing an Israeli statement referencing the possibility that it was Palestinian fire.

“We were going to film the Israeli army operation and suddenly they shot us without asking us to leave or stop filming,” said al-Samoudi.

…“The first bullet hit me and the second bullet hit Shireen … there was no Palestinian military resistance at all at the scene.”

Shatha Hanaysha, a local journalist who was standing next to Abu Akleh when she was shot, also told Al Jazeera that there had been no confrontations between Palestinian fighters and the Israeli army. She said the group of journalists had been directly targeted.

“We were four journalists, we were all wearing vests, all wearing helmets,” Hanaysha said. “The [Israeli] occupation army did not stop firing even after she collapsed. I couldn’t even extend my arm to pull her because of the shots being fired. The army was adamant on shooting to kill.”

You can read the full Al Jazeera article here.

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  2. “The good news with the bad event below is that it sure as hell will not be swept under the table. It’s a PR disaster for the IDF and the Israeli government…”

    Like we see the PR disaster of the below since April 5, 2010 ? What a disaster …

    “Julian Assange faces a 175 year sentence if extradited for revealing war crimes and human rights abuses such as the US gunning down of civilians, including children and 2
    Reuters journalists.”

    • The truth is that brown lives don’t matter and there is no such thing as a PR disaster when it comes to brown people.
      That’s why jUkraine is suddenly top priority for every white trash couch potato.

  3. As a practical matter I hope this incident teaches combat journalists they they have to do their video work from concealed positions whenever possible. or hire military vets to do it. Videos can be shot using telescope equipment, but which is more expensive and requires a crew, which media platfroms would rather not pay for. Welcome to the real world. But the Israeli commander of this operation is sweating bullets now.

    • It is cheaper to contract local journalists since their death doesn´t account to their memorial and it does spare a western live.

  4. A cynical murder. Unfortunately, this has now become the norm. Bullets are flying against the truth to silence it forever..

  5. Who done this murder? For ‘Eretz Israel’, a Sniper will look into His or Her Rifle Scope and into the eyes of the intended Victim, aim between the Eyes of the Target and with Zionist grin and pride, in the name of the ‘Chosen People, and their Yahweh, pulls the Trigger! There is NO Remorse, it must be done for ZIONISM!

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