Are Israel’s attacks on Palestinian media moving up the journalist food chain?
Israeli tactics to deter Palestinian journalists from doing their work include imprisonment, fines, beatings, house arrests, and live fire. The targeting of Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known media personality, signals an escalation in attacks by Israel on journalists attempting to expose the full detail of its decades-long occupation. by Claudia Saba Veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh (Photo: Creative Commons) On 11 May 2022, veteran reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, was shot in the head while covering an Israeli military raid by elite commando unit Duvdevan , near Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. Her colleague, Ali al-Samoudi, was also shot but survived. Witnesses at the scene maintain that the shots came from Israeli forces. Footage, photographs, and geolocation data have pointed to an Israeli convoy as the source of the bullets that killed Shireen and injured her colleague. Investigations by the New York Times , The Washington Post , CNN , Bellingcat , and the UN Human