Video Shared by Israel Shows Palestinian Gunman Was Not Firing at Journalist Killed During Israeli Raid – By Robert Mackey (The Intercept) / May 11, 2022
Israel launched a social media campaign to deflect blame for the killing of renowned Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The effort quickly unraveled.
AN EFFORT BY Israeli officials to use social media evidence to blame Palestinian militants for the fatal shooting of a journalist in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday unraveled within hours, as a close analysis of video shared by Israel showed that a Palestinian gunman was shooting in the direction of Israeli soldiers, not the reporter.
Immediately after the tragic killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, a renowned Palestinian American journalist who was gunned down while covering an Israeli raid on a refugee camp in Jenin, three other journalists who were with her, including one colleague who was shot and another who tried to save her, said that the group had come under fire from Israeli soldiers.
Warning: Graphic video
Clearly depicts continued Israeli firing after Shireen Abu Akleh went down. Screams of “Ambulance”. One man tries to retrieve Shireen, others scream at him to move back from Israeli sniper range.
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