Pittsburgh Post-Gazette · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · May 2022
CP-2022-002
A casualty in the war on journalism
Transcribed from the clipping
“Shireen Abu Akleh, a veteran Palestinian-American journalist who had covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for more than two decades, mostly for Al-Jazeera, was shot and killed on May 11… It didn’t matter that the 51-year-old journalist was wearing the standard outerwear that differentiates credentialed media from combatants on both sides: a blue vest with ‘Press’ emblazoned on it as well as a helmet.
It did not protect her… Israel denies that its military intentionally targets journalists. It claims that Palestinian militants in the West Bank shot and killed Ms. Abu Akleh.
Left unexplained is why they would want to kill a respected and much beloved journalist who has been chronicling the excesses of the Israeli occupation without fear or favor for decades… Israel has demanded access to the bullet. The Palestinian attorney general has refused, fearing Israel would tamper with the evidence.”
Context added by this archive
An American editorial page, arguing about the killing of an American citizen, and printing both the Israeli account and its own objection to it.
Cite this clipping
"A casualty in the war on journalism," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 2022, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2022-002. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2022-002
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