Shireen Abu Akleh

With US aid flowing to Israel, Palestine rights activists say Washington is 'complicit' in Israeli abuses.

In addition to the $3.8bn in US aid that Israel receives annually, this year Washington added another $1bn to “replenish” its Iron Dome missile defence system after a May 2021 Gaza conflict. “Every family deserves to lay their loved ones to rest in a dignified and unimpeded manner,” he wrote on Twitter. After being elected to the presidency, his top aides, including Vice President Kamala Harris, have pledged that the aid would not be restricted under any circumstances. “The killing of any journalist is a tragedy, but the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist reporting on the Israeli government’s occupation of Palestinian lands, is a crime that demands accountability and consequences, not impunity,” McCollum told Al Jazeera in an email on Friday. “The US is 100 percent hand in hand with Israel when it comes to these abuses that are happening.” “When it comes to hawkish politicians who support unconditional support for the Israeli government, they need to look in the mirror and see that actually, our unconditional funding is a big factor in enabling the Israeli government to act with impunity and carry out these human rights abuses.”

Thousands of people gathered for a memorial service on Thursday while her body was carried through the streets of Jerusalem - with the bulletproof vest she ...

Putting the question of who was to blame to one side for a moment, Israeli words and actions following her death, have done nothing to calm a febrile, and angry atmosphere here. The findings will make little difference to the thousands gathered in Jerusalem to bury her - to Palestinians she was murdered and they have lost a voice that spent decades reporting on events in the West Bank On Thursday, thousands of people gathered for a memorial service while her body was carried through the streets - with the bulletproof vest on top of the coffin. Ms Abu Akleh, 51, was reporting on an Israeli raid in the city of Jenin on Wednesday when she was shot in the head whilst wearing a press vest. Israeli police have fired tear gas and attempted to arrest mourners at the funeral in Jerusalem of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead whilst covering a raid. Thousands of people gathered for a memorial service on Thursday while her body was carried through the streets of Jerusalem - with the bulletproof vest she was wearing when she was shot on top of the coffin.

The US criticized Friday's Israeli attacks on mourners and pallbearers during Palestinian-American Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral procession in Jerusalem as.

Pressed further as to whether the Biden administration condemned the Israeli violence, she said: “I think when we said they were disturbing, we obviously were not justifying them. But the US has said Israel could carry out a thorough investigation. “We regret the intrusion of what should have been a peaceful procession. Palestine has said it will not cooperate with the Israeli investigation and said it would not hand over remnants of the bullet that killed Abu Akleh. “This is a day where we should all be marking, including everyone there, the memory of a remarkable journalist who lost her life,” Psaki said during her final briefing as press secretary. “This is a day where we should all be marking, including everyone there, the memory of a remarkable journalist who lost her life,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.

Israeli police beat mourners with batons as Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral procession got underway Friday.

“For the first time, she managed to raise the Palestinian flag by thousands of Palestinian people in [Jerusalem’s] Jaffa Gate.” Palestinian officials refused Thursday to turn the bullet over for Israeli analysis. At a White House briefing on Friday, press secretary Jen Psaki noted the “deeply disturbing images” of the beatings. The standoff eventually prompted Akleh’s brother, sitting on a man’s shoulders, to beseech the crowd to let the hearse through. By noon, a crowd of several hundred formed at the entrance to St. Joseph’s Hospital in East Jerusalem, where Abu Akleh’s body had rested overnight. At one point, Abu Akleh’s coffin lurched toward the ground, but the pallbearers managed to keep it aloft.

The funeral of a slain Palestinian American journalist descended into chaos Friday after Israeli security forces stormed and beat the crowd carrying her ...

The Palestinian Authority has refused, saying it will conduct its own investigation and take the case to the International Criminal Court, which is already investigating possible Israeli war crimes. Tensions were running high ahead of the funeral. Dozens of Israeli police could be seen confronting the crowd before moving in, beating some people with batons and causing mourners to run for safety. The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement Friday that its investigation had not been able "to unequivocally determine the source of the gunfire which hit and killed Ms. Abu Akleh." Crowds chanted “We die for Palestine to live” and sang the Palestinian national anthem, a rare mass show of Palestinian nationalism in east Jerusalem — the contested part of the holy city that Israel captured in 1967 and which the Palestinians claim as their capital. Police had to “disperse and repel” the crowds as well as make arrests, the statement said, “in order to allow the funeral to take place legally.”

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.

In an interview with CPJ, Hanaysha recounted the incident and spoke about Abu Akleh's influence in the occupied Palestinian Territories and beyond. Abu Akleh's ...

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 Palestinian-American journalist was shot and killed by Israeli forces while working in Jenin on Wednesday. EU High Representative Josep Borrell said the ...

1/2 Today, EU 🇪🇺and likeminded partners attended the funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh in occupied East Jerusalem. Appalled by the violence in the St Joseph Hospital compound and the level of unnecessary force exercised by Israeli police throughout the funeral procession. In a statement, Mr Borrell said: "The EU condemns the disproportionate use of force and the disrespectful behaviour by the Israeli police against the participants of the mourning procession. The European Union has condemned Israel for violence and "unnecessary force" shown during the funeral of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

Arab journalist's shooting highlights challenges Palestinians face in holding the Israeli army to account for civilian deaths.

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.

Thousands gathered in occupied East Jerusalem for the journalist's funeral after she was shot dead by Israeli forces.

She genuinely loved people and was outraged by the Israeli occupation.” Israeli authorities said six people were arrested after mourners threw “rocks and glass bottles”. As her body left St Joseph Hospital, Israeli police attacked the funeral procession – nearly forcing pallbearers to drop Abu Akleh’s coffin.

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”.

Israel police insisted Saturday they only charged into the funeral procession of Shireen Abu Akleh because her coffin was being stolen by a mob.

Israeli Police intervened to disperse the mob and prevent them from taking the coffin, so that the funeral could proceed as planned in accordance with the wishes of the family. This went against the wishes of the Abu-Akleh family and the security coordination’s that had been planned to safeguard the large number of mourners Unfortunately, hundreds of rioters tried to sabotage the ceremony and harm the police,” Israel police tweeted.

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.

Israeli officials have said officers who struck pallbearers Friday were seeking to carry out a plan agreed upon with the family of Shireen Abu Akleh, the 51- ...

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For over two decades, she kept them informed on the occupation of Palestine – despite enormous personal risks. This week, she was killed while reporting on a ...

“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.