Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to the show. It's been a pretty grim week for many, many reasons.

But in the Middle East, in Palestine, we've seen the killing of Shereen Abou Akhler

and iconic. And I think it really needs to be emphasised in an iconic journalist who works for

Al Jazeera. If you speak to anyone in the Middle East, they will say that they grew up

often watching her news reports. It's almost impossible to separate her from the way that people

across Middle East understand particularly what's happening, of course, in Palestine. Now she was

shot dead by Israeli forces. That, of course, was sickening enough, but what we then saw was her

funeral being attacked by Israeli police. I think it's just worth just having a quick look. We've

got some of the footage, some of you may have seen this. I'm not going to show the footage of

a shooting, which is obviously extremely distressing, and many of you will have seen it already.

But look, just for those obviously people listening to the podcast, you'll just hear the music.

But let's just have a look at a close-up of what happened with her poor bearers and her coffin

during the funeral.

Really shocking stuff. And the Israeli narrative that, for example, the poor bearers were throwing

rocks, etc. not born out at all. In fact, the footage has been repeatedly dissected and analysed.

Obviously, we live in a world now where people can use social media and share these videos and

then analyse them themselves. Just doesn't bear out the official Israeli narrative at all. I think

it's quite striking, actually, that even people who've been often quite reticent to criticise

Israel, the occupation, certainly not the apartheid system, which human rights watch,

Amnesty International and Betsyland have documented, have actually come out and condemned it.

So it's, I mean, the fact that we've seen the shooting dead of an iconic journalist

and then the attack on a funeral was obviously too much even for some defenders of Israel

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