The Al Jazeera news network says it will submit a case file to the International Criminal Court on the killing of its reporter, Shireen Abu Akleh, adding to an earlier case that includes the bombing of their offices in Gaza.
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The Israeli military’s killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is simply a more flagrant display of commonplace Israeli assaults on Palestinians. The only way to truly end the impunity is to cut off US funding.
Source: Israel Killed Al Jazeera Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. It Must Be Held Accountable.
She carried her belongings and went with the Press team into the field to begin the news coverage. She was ready to deliver her visual news report, as she had done for the past 25 years, but her last report made her the topic of the coverage, which was both shocking and bloody. The Israeli occupation army targeted her with a live bullet to the head during Press coverage from Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank and she fell to the ground, while her colleague, Press Producer, Ali Al-Samoudi, was wounded. Her colleagues rushed her in a car in a desperate attempt to rescue her, while the features of her exploded head changed, according to shocking clips documenting the incident. These were the last clips of Shireen Abu Akleh, who is renowned, as she is the Palestinian journalist who has always been present on Al-Jazeera TV and known by generations in every Arab home, present during the daily incidents and major events.
Source: Shireen Abu Akleh: A Quarter of a Century of Coverage ended with an Israeli Bullet to the Head
A half-century after the death of Civil Right activist Malcolm X, lawyers revealed new evidence of NYPD and FBI involvement in his assassination.
Deathbed Confession: FBI and NYPD Responsible for Malcolm X Assassination | The Smirking Chimp
This doesn’t make Erdogan a hero by any means he murders Kurds by the thousands and allowed the sale of oil and weapons to go to ISIS (ODT)
The murder of one man has diminished two world leaders and revived the standing of a third.
But if, as many suspect, the alleged killers are agents with Israel’s Mossad intelligence service, they may never be found.
Hamas, the Islamist group that runs Gaza, say the engineer was assassinated.
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