How impunity in Shireen Abu Akleh’s case fuels Israeli attacks on the press
Key takeaways
- Rights advocates say lack of accountability for killing of US citizen and Al Jazeera journalist enabled further abuses.
- “I managed to look and see Shireen lying next to me.
- “But I knew from my experience in field work that it was clear that she had been killed.”
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Rights advocates say lack of accountability for killing of US citizen and Al Jazeera journalist enabled further abuses.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Journalists in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip take part in a candlelight vigil to condemn the killing of veteran Al Jazeera's Shireen Abu Akleh, May 11, 2022 [File: Said Khatib/AFP]By Ali Harb and Brian Osgood Published On 11 May 202611 May 2026Medics had to restrain Palestinian journalist Ali al-Samoudi while tending to his bullet wound when the body of his colleague Shireen Abu Akleh arrived at Ibn Sina hospital in the occupied West Bank.
“I managed to look and see Shireen lying next to me. I couldn’t believe the situation. I started screaming, and I tried to get to her. They didn’t let me,” said al-Samoudi as he recounted to Al Jazeera the events of May 11, 2022.