The veteran Al Jazeera journalist was fatally shot by Israeli forces whereas reporting within the occupied West Financial institution.
- The physique of killed journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is being moved from the St Louis French Hospital in occupied East Jerusalem to the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Virgin within the Previous Metropolis, the place her funeral can be held within the subsequent few hours.
- Hundreds of Palestinians are anticipated to assemble for the funeral service, earlier than Abu Akleh is taken to the Mount Zion Protestant Cemetery, the place she can be buried alongside her deceased mother and father within the subsequent few hours.
- Abu Akleh’s physique was introduced from Jenin, the place she was killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday, to Jerusalem through Nablus and Ramallah, in a procession the place Palestinians paid their respects.
- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has mentioned that he would take Abu Akleh’s case to the Worldwide Felony Courtroom in an effort to get justice for the veteran reporter, who joined Al Jazeera in 1997, and was an icon in Palestine and the broader Arab world.
Israeli safety forces beat mourners
Israeli safety forces beat mourners as they started to maneuver Abu Akleh’s casket from the St Louis French Hospital in occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood.
Al Jazeera’s Marwan Bishara, commenting on the assault, mentioned “why does that require this sort of violence?”
Abu Akleh and the journalists killed by Israeli forces
No less than 45 journalists have been killed by Israeli forces since 2000, in accordance with the Palestinian Ministry of Info.
The Palestinian Journalists’ Union locations the loss of life toll increased at 55 killed.
Press freedom advocates have lengthy mentioned Israel acts with impunity with regards to the concentrating on of journalists. In April, three organisations introduced a grievance in regards to the killing and maiming of media staff to the Worldwide Felony Courtroom.
Learn extra right here on the journalists killed whereas masking the Israel-Palestine battle.
Israel ‘investigating soldier’ in journalist Abu Akleh’s killing
The Israeli army is more and more accepting the likelihood that certainly one of its troopers killed veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, with experiences rising that Israel is investigating the probability that certainly one of its troopers shot her throughout a raid within the occupied West Financial institution metropolis of Jenin.
The admission that an Israeli soldier may very well be accountable is proof that the Israelis are backtracking from their preliminary place that it was probably that Palestinian fighters in Jenin killed Abu Akleh.
Israel is conducting an investigation into Abu Akleh’s killing, Israeli military sources instructed the Wall Avenue Journal and the Washington Submit newspapers.
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Funeral to be held in Abu Akleh’s hometown of Jerusalem
A 3 day memorial procession, that started on Wednesday, when Al Jazeera journalist Abu Akleh was fatally shot by Israeli forces whereas reporting on a raid of the Jenin refugee camp, will culminate on Wednesday with a funeral in her hometown of Jerusalem.
Friday’s occasions are anticipated to start with a procession from the St Louis French Hospital in occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, the place Abu Akleh’s physique remained in a single day, to the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem’s Previous Metropolis, the place a funeral service can be held within the afternoon on the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Virgin.
Abu Akleh, who was killed on the age of 51, will then be buried subsequent to her mother and father on the close by Mount Zion Protestant Cemetery.
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