Israel kills veteran Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh in occupied West Bank
Mourners carry the body of Shireen Abu Akleh who was killed by Israeli army gunfire in Jenin 11 May 2022
Yumna Patel reports in Mondoweiss on 11 May 2022:
Israeli forces shot and killed Palestinian journalist and veteran Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh in the head today while she was covering an Israeli raid on the Jenin Refugee Camp.
Abu Akleh and a group of other journalists, who were wearing blue flak jackets and helmets marked as ‘PRESS’, were stationed near an entrance to Jenin refugee camp when they came under fire from Israeli forces.
Abu Akleh was shot in the head, in an exposed area below her ear, killing her instantly. Another Palestinian journalist, Ali Samoudi, was shot in the back. He was treated at a local hospital and was reported to be in stable condition.
Video footage from the hospital shows Abu Akleh’s colleagues crying out to her “wake up”, as her body lay in front of them. In harrowing video footage taken at the scene of the moment Abu Akleh was killed, a series of gunshots can be heard before journalists start shouting for an ambulance.
Footage shows Abu Akleh, still wearing her press vest and helmet, lying face down in the ground below a tree, as another Palestinian journalist and Mondoweiss contributor Shatha Hanaysha hides behind the tree in attempts to shield herself from the bullets.