Greater than six months for the reason that Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed whereas reporting within the occupied West Financial institution, “there may be nonetheless no accountability in what occurred,” says journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous. He’s the correspondent on a brand new Al Jazeera documentary for this system “Fault Traces” that investigates Abu Akleh’s Could killing. It attracts on movies and eyewitness accounts of Abu Akleh’s killing to ascertain that Abu Akleh was fatally shot within the head by Israeli forces, a discovering supported by quite a few different press investigations. The Biden administration additionally lately opened an FBI probe into her killing, however Israel is refusing to cooperate and has continued to disclaim accountability. Abu Akleh, who was one of the crucial recognizable faces within the Arab world, had labored for Al Jazeera for 25 years and held U.S. citizenship. We play excerpts from the Al Jazeera documentary, The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, and listen to from Shireen’s niece Lina Abu Akleh. “We would like there to be accountability. We would like there to be justice,” she says.
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AMY GOODMAN: That is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The Conflict and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman.
We start in the present day’s present trying on the killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by Israeli forces. On Could eleventh, an Israeli soldier shot her within the head as she was reporting simply exterior the Jenin refugee camp within the occupied West Financial institution. Shireen and different reporters have been carrying blue helmets and blue flak jackets clearly emblazoned with the phrase “press.” Shireen was one of many distinguished TV journalists — one of the crucial distinguished TV journalists within the Arab world. She had labored for Al Jazeera for 1 / 4 of a century. She was additionally a U.S. citizen.
Within the six months since her loss of life, nobody has been held accountable. After months of strain, the Biden administration lately opened an FBI investigation into her killing, however Israel is refusing to cooperate within the probe. Israeli officers initially blamed Palestinians for her loss of life, then known as proof “inconclusive,” earlier than as soon as once more altering their story in September to say she had been by accident hit by Israeli troops’ gunfire after they got here below hearth from Palestinian gunmen. However eyewitness accounts and movies of the world the place Shireen Abu Akleh was killed don’t present a gun battle. And investigations by Al Jazeera, The New York Instances, CNN and different information retailers additionally problem the official Israeli model of Shireen’s killing.
The Al Jazeera documentary program Fault Traces has simply premiered a outstanding documentary on what occurred. It’s known as The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh. Later in this system, we’ll be joined by Sharif Abdel Kouddous, the correspondent on the documentary, and Shireen’s niece, Lina Abu Akleh. However first, let’s flip to an excerpt from the documentary that includes Sharif talking to 5 eyewitnesses, together with the journalists who have been along with her, Mujahed al-Saadi, Shatha Hanaysha and Ali al-Samoudi. This clip begins with the Al Jazeera cameraman who labored along with her for some 30 years, Majdi Bannoura. A warning: This excerpt consists of graphic footage.
MAJDI BANNOURA: [translated] We put the helmet on Shireen. I bought my digicam, and I wore the helmet, and I adopted her.
MUJAHED AL-SAADI: [translated] We have been all carrying our protecting gear, a vest and a helmet.
ALI AL-SAMOUDI: We stood in order that they may see us properly and acknowledge us as journalists.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: That is Ali and Shireen strolling by Salim.
ALI AL-SAMOUDI: After we made certain that there have been no confrontations, we began strolling slowly, with gradual steps.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: And about 25 seconds later, right here they’re strolling with Shatha and Mujahid up the road, all of their press jackets, simply previous the spot the place Salim had a view of the navy.
ALI AL-SAMOUDI: All of the sudden, a spherical of bullets was fired. I shouted, “Shireen, they’re taking pictures at us. We now have to get out of right here.” Simply as I used to be saying, “We now have to get out of right here,” my shoulder exploded. I shouted, “Shireen, I used to be shot,” or I mentioned, “Shireen, they shot me.”
MUJAHED AL-SAADI: [translated] After the primary bullet, I used to be in a position to bounce behind a brief wall to take shelter in. Shireen and Shatha reached me to leap and get out of the place, however they couldn’t.
MAJDI BANNOURA: [translated] They began firing at us. I instantly pressed report. I noticed Ali was wounded. He walked away. Shireen was behind the tree. I may nonetheless see her hiding behind the tree.
SHIREEN ABU AKLEH: [translated] Ali has been wounded!
ALI AL-SAMOUDI: The final phrases that Shireen mentioned was, “Ali has been wounded,” “Ali has been wounded.” I imply, these ears, every single day, on a regular basis, Shireen’s voice is repeating in my ears.
MAJDI BANNOURA: [translated] I stepped ahead once more, and so they began saying, “Shireen, Shireen.” However they shot at us once more.
UNIDENTIFIED: Mujahed!
SHATHA HANAYSHA: [translated] I’ve a clean spot in my thoughts. I don’t keep in mind how I bought behind the tree. I bought behind the tree and circled to see if Shireen may come to the place I used to be. At that time, I noticed Shireen falling to the bottom. I didn’t perceive that she had been gravely wounded.
UNIDENTIFIED: Shireen! Shireen! [translated] Ambulance!
MAJDI BANNOURA: [translated] I stepped ahead and noticed Shireen on the bottom. I’m holding the digicam. I bend down. I wish to stroll, to stroll towards Shireen.
UNIDENTIFIED: [translated] Keep! Keep! Keep the place you might be! Don’t transfer! Mujahed, don’t transfer!
UNIDENTIFIED: [translated] Who was shot?
UNIDENTIFIED: Shireen! Shireen!
UNIDENTIFIED: [translated] Ambulance!
UNIDENTIFIED: [translated] Ambulance!
SHATHA HANAYSHA: [translated] The entire time I needed to shake her, to the touch her, to maneuver her, however I used to be additionally stuffed with concern as a result of the tree was what was defending us, and if I moved her, possibly she can be wounded once more. I keep in mind after I noticed the blood on the bottom, when the blood began popping out. That’s after I realized she had taken a bullet to the pinnacle. And I began shouting, “It’s her head! Her head!”
SALIM AWAD: Each time she moved, there was taking pictures. I attempted to method, and I couldn’t.
UNIDENTIFIED: [translated] Pull her!
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: A younger man named Sharif jumped over the wall to try to assist. However he was additionally fired at.
AMY GOODMAN: An excerpt of the documentary The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh. The Al Jazeera documentary program Fault Traces simply aired this. Shireen Abu Akleh labored for Al Jazeera for 1 / 4 of a century.
We’re joined now by Sharif Abdel Kouddous, the correspondent on the documentary.
Sharif, it is a highly effective piece, as a result of you might have put collectively for the primary time all of those eyewitness accounts. In a second, we’re going to get the response of the US. Shireen Abu Akleh is a Palestinian American journalist. However I’m questioning when you can discuss concerning the significance. That is the group of journalists, colleagues, producers, filmmakers that she was with exterior the Jenin refugee camp. And speak about what it means to listen to their description now.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Proper, Amy. I believe what’s crucial to know about this case, initially, that is the form of violence that Palestinians are topic to each day. Simply over the previous week, we’ve seen one thing like 9 Palestinians killed in numerous Israeli raids within the West Financial institution.
What could be very specific about this case is, initially, this is among the most distinguished journalists within the Arab world. She’s a family title throughout the area. And quite a lot of what occurred is caught on digicam. We now have all of this footage, each from a bystander who began a TikTok video within the minutes main as much as the killing, and we see the Al Jazeera cameraman himself filming what occurred; and the testimony, all this eyewitness testimony from different journalists and individuals who have been there, as properly; and the truth that Shireen can be a U.S. citizen. And with all of this, there may be nonetheless no accountability in what occurred.
And so, what we will see, and what the journalists and the eyewitnesses very vividly describe, is that they arrived on the scene close to the Al-Awdah roundabout, which is simply exterior the doorway to the Jenin refugee camp. There had been an Israeli raid early that morning. Israeli troopers had gone in to do an arrest. After which they’d parked in a convoy of between 5 to seven autos up a road. As you may see within the video, when Shireen arrives and the opposite journalists arrive, the state of affairs is totally calm. There isn’t a gunfire in anyway. You possibly can see individuals joking as they’re preparing. They’ve clearly placed on all their protecting gear, their vests, their helmets. They’re clearly recognized with “press.” A number of the journalists stand going through the Israeli convoy for a number of minutes so the troopers may see them and see that they’re journalists.
After which, sooner or later they start very slowly strolling up the center of the road. And really shortly, we hear a burst of gunfire, of six pictures. The producer, Ali al-Samoudi, is hit within the shoulder, and he begins operating again. One journalist jumps over a wall. And Shireen and Shatha Hanaysha are attempting to run again, as properly. Eight seconds later, there’s one other burst of gunfire, and one in every of these bullets — about seven pictures have been fired. Certainly one of these bullets hit Shireen within the head. And it’s important to perceive that she’s carrying full physique armor and a helmet. There’s solely a really small space that’s uncovered, and that’s the place the bullet entered, via the underside of her neck, and went into her head. After which we see once more, as persons are making an attempt to rescue Shireen and rescue Shatha, who was simply subsequent to her, as quickly as anybody is in form of line of sight, they’re fired on once more. And we hear one other three pictures.
So, you already know, this wasn’t form of like errant gunfire from the Israeli convoy; this was repeated concentrating on. And the group Forensic Evaluation, together with the Palestinian rights group Al-Haq, did a outstanding investigation, and so they additionally confirmed the sample of the pictures, as properly. The convoy was about 200 meters from the place Shireen was. It reveals a outstanding accuracy of all of those pictures. They’re very tightly grouped collectively. They’re all pictures which can be above the shoulder and across the head, so these are kill pictures. They usually have been repeatedly concentrating on what was very apparent. They usually additionally reconstruct what the marksman would have seen, given the scope that the Israeli navy makes use of and what this elite unit that was stationed there makes use of. And you’ll see, Amy, that there was — they have been clearly carrying form of their press outfits. And I stood at that spot and appeared from the place the Israeli convoy was and the place Shireen was killed, and it’s form of very clear.
So, given all of this very compelling proof, the truth that there’s been no accountability in anyway is de facto fairly stunning. Israel, to start with, first mentioned that — it launched a video that day saying a Palestinian gunman killed her, and so they launched this video of a Palestinian militant taking pictures. The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem went that day to debunk that declare, and we additionally went to that spot, and it’s only a preposterous declare. The bullets — we walked the place the bullets — the place the gunman was firing from and the place Shireen was and the place the Israeli convoy was. And it’s this sequence of lefts and rights via alleyways and buildings. It’s an unattainable shot. There’s no clear line of sight in anyway.
So, then the Israelis modified their story, and so they mentioned there’s not sufficient proof to know what occurred. After which, after quite a lot of strain, in September they mentioned — they lastly mentioned an Israeli soldier could have by accident killed her as a result of — after she was caught in crossfire. Once more, there’s no credibility in anyway to this declare of crossfire. Each the video proof and all of the eyewitness testimony reveals that the state of affairs was fully calm and there was no crossfire in anyway.
And even with all this proof, the US, the Biden administration, has accepted the Israeli narrative, has been complicit on this whitewash. And solely lately, after quite a lot of strain, did the FBI lastly admit — or, lastly resolve to open an investigation.
AMY GOODMAN: So, in a second, we’re going to go to the officers, the U.S. officers, who you spoke to about investigating this. I imply, one of many highly effective components of this documentary is you return to all of the individuals we simply heard described, her fellow and sister journalists round her. And also you ask them, “Had been you questioned by the U.S. authorities?” Speak about this. “Had been you questioned for an investigation?” She’s an American.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Proper. So, you already know, the US put out its report in July. This was one thing performed by the U.S. safety coordinator, which is a fact-finding mission on the bottom in Palestine. And that report was not its personal investigation. The U.S. didn’t do an investigation. What it did was it summarized the Israeli investigation and the Palestinian Authority investigation and did a ballistics report, which was finally inconclusive. So, the U.S. safety report very closely depends on the Israeli investigation, and there’s only a very brief assertion that was put out by the State Division that claims that an Israeli soldier probably killed Shireen however that there was no intentionality in anyway. They don’t clarify how they got here up with this conclusion of intentionality. They don’t again up the declare in anyway.
They usually didn’t conduct any of their very own investigation, so not one of the eyewitnesses are questioned. That is simply very primary protocols to comply with whenever you’re making an attempt to research what occurred. There are a number of individuals who have been with Shireen, proper subsequent to her when she was shot. These are journalists, as properly. And also you don’t interview them. None of them have been questioned by both Israeli officers or U.S. officers.
And for the State Division and the Biden administration to simply settle for this narrative by the Israelis within the killing of an American citizen is — it actually goes to point out how far they’re keen to go and bend over backwards to help Israel in this sort of impunity. It’s actually — it’s not very understandable why they’re doing this.
AMY GOODMAN: Properly, we’re going to return to your documentary, The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, that simply premiered on Al Jazeera’s Fault Traces. This clip begins with Hagai El-Advert. He’s the chief director of the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, speaking about Israel’s investigations within the killing. After which it goes on to various U.S. officers you sat down with, Sharif.
HAGAI EL-AD: These are disgrace investigations, however quite a lot of assets are invested in them by the Israeli navy. So, why are they going via all these motions, proper? It’s deliberate. You arrive at impunity, however you don’t pay a worth within the public area, as a result of, “Hey, we’re investigating.” And legally talking, these sham investigations are a authorized Iron Dome to guard Israeli troopers from potential worldwide authorized penalties. They’re making an attempt to dam the trail for worldwide jurisdiction, and so they’re making an attempt to win the general public relations recreation.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: The US appears to be relying closely on the Israeli investigation of the killing. Do you assume that’s ample?
HAGAI EL-AD: It’s not simply not ample, it’s outrageous. Like, this isn’t occurring in a vacuum. There are tons of of different case information. That is well-established undeniable fact that Israel doesn’t conduct investigations that are supposed to arrive at holding individuals accountable.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: For Shireen’s household, the U.S. backing of the Israeli investigation was significantly upsetting, particularly after President Biden declined to satisfy with them in each Palestine and Washington.
ANTON ABU AKLEH: We had actually anticipated heaps extra from the U.S. authorities, however we’re not getting something, nothing besides candy speaking and condolences, one thing anybody can do.
LINA ABU AKLEH: He preaches about press freedom, safety of journalists, however the best way he didn’t maintain the identical values when Shireen was killed was very, very upsetting. And it simply confirmed the double requirements when a Palestinian American journalist is killed.
SEN. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN: That is an American citizen. We now have an obligation to pursue the info wherever they lead, as Secretary Blinken himself mentioned.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Senator Chris Van Hollen has led a bunch of his colleagues in pushing the Biden administration to research Shireen’s killing.
Why do you assume the State Division hasn’t performed an impartial investigation but?
SEN. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN: Their new view — not the unique phrases of the secretary — is that they may take these different investigations which were accomplished. The issue, the problem is that they have reached very completely different conclusions. You’ve got, initially, the IDF report justifies the taking pictures and the taking pictures loss of life primarily based on claims that there was a crossfire. However you even have impartial analyses which were completed that clearly dispute that declare. And the IDF has not put the info on the desk that present the way it reached that conclusion. They haven’t made public their evaluation.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: This was a U.S. citizen. Do you consider the administration has upheld their responsibility?
SEN. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN: I don’t. I believe we’ve got an obligation to do what the secretary of state initially mentioned. They seem to have backed off. However I consider, and lots of of my colleagues consider, that we’ve bought to resolve this, and it can’t be swept below the rug.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: The State Division declined to make Secretary of State Blinken accessible to talk with us. And in an interview, a division spokesperson frequently deferred to the U.S. safety coordinator’s report and the Israeli investigation.
NED PRICE: U.S. safety coordinator on the bottom labored with each Palestinians and Israelis, in some instances bodily bridging these two investigations, to organize his personal set of findings.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Let me ask you concerning the central declare within the Israeli navy’s report, that if an Israeli soldier killed her, it was as a result of Shireen was caught in an trade of fireplace by Palestinian gunmen within the space. That declare is totally disputed by eyewitness testimony and video footage from that space within the minutes main as much as and in the course of the taking pictures. Doesn’t that discrepancy concern you?
NED PRICE: After all we’re involved when there are allegations {that a} civilian was deliberately focused. What the Israelis discovered and what our safety coordinator discovered was that there seems to have been no intentionality. Our safety coordinator discovered no purpose to consider that Shireen Abu Akleh was deliberately focused by —
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Have you ever seen the footage?
NED PRICE: — by Israeli — after all. And I’ve checked out every thing that’s accessible within the public area.
SEN. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN: Clearly, they haven’t completed what they mentioned themselves they have been going to do. The secretary of state mentioned there can be an impartial investigation. There has not been an impartial investigation. Backing off sends the mistaken message all over the world.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Past the State Division, we needed to ask the White Home about Shireen.
Thanks. I’ve a query on the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The U.S. safety coordinator’s report was not an investigation. It was primarily based on the Israeli investigation, the PA’s investigation. There was a ballistics evaluation completed that was inconclusive. Not one of the key eyewitnesses have even been interviewed. Why has the U.S. not performed an impartial investigation into the killing of an American citizen?
JOHN KIRBY: We mentioned from the very starting that we needed it totally transparently investigated. We acknowledge that the Israelis did conduct a radical investigation.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Do you characterize it as a radical investigation when no key eyewitnesses have been interviewed, and there’s clear video proof that contradicts the central declare within the killing of a U.S. citizen?
JOHN KIRBY: Look, once more, we proceed to mourn with the household. And this clearly shouldn’t have occurred. However I’m not going to talk anymore concerning the investigation. That’s been accomplished.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Simply two weeks after this, and over six months after Shireen was killed, information broke that the FBI, impartial of the White Home, would open an investigation into the killing. The Israeli authorities made clear they might not cooperate. On condition that and the U.S. administration’s statements for the reason that killing, it’s unclear how thorough and clear the investigation will actually be.
HAGAI EL-AD: I believe it might be useful if it’s real, however I believe the U.S. has misplaced a lot credibility thus far on this regard. We’re not in an uncommon time limit. The U.S. authorities is now on report expressing its belief and confidence within the so-called Israeli investigation. So, we’re not at a clear slate on this regard. Like, we’re deep into this territory wherein the U.S. has aligned itself with the Israeli narrative on this killing.
AMY GOODMAN: That’s an excerpt of The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, which simply premiered on the Al Jazeera documentary program Fault Traces. To see the full documentary on Al Jazeera’s English YouTube web page, we’ll hyperlink to it at democracynow.org. Sharif Abdel Kouddous is with us, the correspondent on this documentary, in addition to Lina Abu Akleh, the niece of Shireen Abu Akleh.
And we welcome you each. Sharif, we watched you query one official after one other, Ned Value, the State Division spokesperson, Admiral John Kirby of the Nationwide Safety Council now. You even tried to query President Biden. And since this time, the FBI has introduced it’s opening an investigation. Are you able to speak about what the U.S. is saying now?
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Properly, you already know, the FBI has introduced it’s opening an investigation. We now have to know that is coming after quite a lot of strain — the household has not given up on pushing for accountability — the quantity of proof that’s clear. And in addition, we’re seeing in Congress, you already know, practically half of the Democratic members of the Senate have known as into query — they wrote a letter calling into query Israel’s claims that Shireen was by accident shot by an Israeli soldier, and, you already know, suggesting that she could have been focused as a journalist. So, we’ve got strain from Congress, from the household, all this video proof, media strain, as properly from human rights organizations, and eventually this announcement that the FBI goes to open an investigation.
I believe, as we heard from the chief director of B’Tselem, the U.S. isn’t ranging from a impartial level. They’ve already expressed their help for the Israeli narrative. We’ll must see what the FBI investigation comes up with. Israel has made very clear that it’s not going to cooperate in any manner in anyway. The troopers won’t be accessible to be interviewed. They won’t launch the bodycam footage that Israeli troopers virtually at all times are carrying. So, we’ll must see how clear, as properly, the FBI makes this investigation, whether or not accountability comes ahead. However definitely, it’s a optimistic step, but it surely has solely come after months and months of strain and compelling proof that could be very troublesome to contradict.
AMY GOODMAN: And we’re going to speak about the place a few of that strain is coming from. Lina Abu Akleh is with us from San Francisco. Lina is the niece of Shireen Abu Akleh. Lina, you, your father Tony, your complete household has been pushing extraordinarily exhausting for this investigation. Your aunt, Shireen, is an American citizen. President Biden went to Israel and the West Financial institution. Speak about who you might have gotten to see. You met with Antony Blinken? Is that proper? Antony Blinken? Have you ever met with President Biden? What do you are feeling concerning the FBI saying, after six months, they may open an investigation?
LINA ABU AKLEH: Yeah, thanks, Amy. We met with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in July. We have been hoping to have met with President Biden, particularly throughout his go to to the area. Sadly, that didn’t occur, despite the fact that he was 10 minutes away from the place Shireen was born and raised. We nonetheless hope that we’ll get to satisfy him. It’s actually vital that he hears instantly from our household, and for us to see and to listen to from their finish how they’re pursuing all their efforts in direction of accountability.
We have been truly very inspired by the information that the FBI shall be investigating. That is one thing we’ve been calling on from day one, since Shireen was a U.S. citizen, and it’s the responsibility of the US to research any crime carried out by a overseas military exterior towards a U.S. citizen. And we stand able to help the U.S. in conducting this impartial and thorough investigation, following all of the proof, the place it leads up and down the chain of command. And we’ve seen how the Israeli military is unable and unwilling to research themselves. That’s why it’s actually vital for the FBI to be investigating. And we additionally hope that the US, the FBI will make use of all instruments essential to get the solutions that we’ve been asking relating to the killing of Shireen, but additionally to result in accountability and justice. That’s what we wish. We would like there to be accountability. We would like there to be justice.
And through our journey to D.C. in July, we met with numerous members of Congress and representatives who’ve been calling out for an investigation, who’ve been supporting us and consistently pushing in direction of an impartial investigation.
AMY GOODMAN: On November fifteenth, the U.S. Home, Consultant André Carson, one of many few Muslim members of Congress, together with 21 different Home Democrats, launched the Justice for Shireen Act, separate from the FBI’s investigation proper now. Additionally, you might have the FBI not saying particularly how they’re going to research this, and you’ve got the outgoing Israeli Protection Minister Benny Gantz saying, quote, that the IDF “won’t cooperate with an exterior investigation, and won’t allow intervention to inside investigations.” Your response to this, as Israel places collectively — at this level, is forming essentially the most right-wing authorities in its historical past?
LINA ABU AKLEH: Yeah. Properly, from the very starting, we noticed how Israel lied and distorted the reality, and so they’ve been unwilling to research. They usually have a observe report of escaping guilt and accountability, so we weren’t anticipating something from them. And that needs to be apparent to anybody.
However on the finish of the day, we nonetheless hope that each one events will cooperate on this investigation. However we’ve seen the overwhelming proof that’s already been gathered by all of the respected information retailers, and particularly this documentary, the AJ Fault Traces documentary, that’s so highly effective however very painful and troublesome to observe. Nevertheless it’s so vital for everybody to see that the proof is there. The eyewitnesses are — they present the eyewitness testimonies.
So, I’m certain that no matter Israel’s cooperation, the U.S. will nonetheless comply with via and perform a radical investigation. And we’re hopeful that this might result in accountability. And no matter any new authorities in Israel, we nonetheless hope that this investigation carries via.
AMY GOODMAN: Properly, Lina Abu Akleh, we wish to thanks for being with us, the niece of Shireen Abu Akleh, one of the crucial well-known Arab journalists on this planet, a Palestinian American journalist. And Sharif Abdel Kouddous, the correspondent on this Fault Traces piece, The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh. We’re going to hyperlink to it at democracynow.org, the YouTube model of the documentary. However I wish to finish with Shireen Abu Akleh in her personal phrases, an excerpt from The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh.
SHIREEN ABU AKLEH: [translated] Typically the Israeli military doesn’t need you there, so they aim you, even when they later say it was an accident. They could say, “We noticed some younger males round you.” So they aim you on goal, as a manner of scaring you off as a result of they don’t need you there.
AMY GOODMAN: The phrases of Shireen Abu Akleh.
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