A Year After Israeli Sniper Kills Shireen Abu Akleh, No Justice for Palestinian-American Journalist

[Uncle Joe]

One year ago, on May 11, 2022, an Israeli soldier fatally shot the Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the head as she was reporting on an Israeli military raid just outside the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. She was shot while wearing a blue helmet and blue flak jacket clearly emblazoned with the word "press." Abu Akleh was one of the most prominent TV journalists in the Arab world and had worked for Al Jazeera for a quarter of a century. She was also a U.S. citizen. But a year after her death, no one has been held accountable despite detailed testimony from eyewitnesses to the shooting. We air excerpts from the Al Jazeera investigation The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh_, which just won a George Polk Award, and speak with correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous. "There's still no justice in her case, no accountability whatsoever," says Abdel Kouddous. He adds that while the White House has been very vocal about the case of _Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is detained in Russia, the response to Abu Akleh's killing has been muted. "Shireen was an American citizen, and her family deserves the same calls for justice, the same push for accountability from the White House."

[Tetrachloride]

1. No justice. Another day of quiet from DOJ.

[Goddessartist]

2. No justice at all. Apparently different rules for Israel. Rachel Corrie,

Shireen Abu Akleh. More, I'm sure.

[Mosby]

3. New US report said it was accidental.

Updated report to say Abu Akleh likely killed by errant IDF gunfire


An updated United States report is expected to support findings that American-Palestinian reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was likely killed by accidental IDF gunfire, US State Department Deputy spokesman Vedant Patel said on freedom press day on Wednesday.

“IDF gunfire was likely the reason” for Abu Akleh’s death, Patel said noting that it was “unintentional” and due to “incredibly tragic circumstances.”

He spoke after Democratic Senator Chis Van Hollen of Maryland pushed for the release of an undated report by US Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority (USSC) who investigated the circumstance of her death on May 11 while covering a firefight between Palestinian gunmen and the IDF.

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-742011

Of course if one thinks that Israeli Jews are monsters like Amy Goodman and company, no amount of evidence will change their minds. That's how bigotry works, it's not rational.

[Goddessartist]

4. Your opinion is noted.

Not what the eye witnesses say happened, and I must say it's so very easy to claim bigotry when no amount of evidence will change your mind. No one here said Israeli Jews are monsters. Just you.

Was there an excuse for Rachel Corrie as well?