The Hunt for a Journalist’s Killer
Question Everything
Brian Reed
4.6 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
A group of reporters recently uncovered a closely held secret: the identity of the Israeli soldier who shot and killed renowned veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in 2022. This is the story of how they figured it out.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to question everything. Today on the show, the mystery of a journalist's killing finally |
| 0:05.9 | solved. Our producer, Sophie Kaises, has the story. |
| 0:25.4 | As a kid, Shereen Abuakle lived in Jerusalem and New Jersey. |
| 0:31.6 | In adulthood, she became one of the most well-known journalists in the Middle East. |
| 0:35.9 | She was a TV correspondent for Al Jazeera for over two decades, |
| 0:40.1 | doing dangerous on-the-ground reporting on Israel's occupation of Palestine. |
| 0:44.6 | She was known for the distinctive way she signed off her broadcasts. |
| 0:57.9 | Shirin Abu Aqle, Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera, occupied Jerusalem. Three years ago, on May 11, 2022, while reporting on an Israeli military raid on the Janine |
| 1:05.1 | refugee camp in the West Bank, Shireen Abuakle was shot and killed by Israeli forces. |
| 1:12.3 | Shireen was Palestinian-American. |
| 1:14.8 | She was the first and only American journalist to be killed by the Israeli military. |
| 1:20.1 | No one has been held accountable. |
| 1:22.7 | The truth of what happened to her that day was sort of lost in the obfuscation around her death. |
| 1:29.7 | This is reporter Dianneissenbaum. He and a team of journalists released the documentary |
| 1:34.5 | Who Killed Shereen a couple weeks ago? Her shooting was captured on video. I witnesses at the scene |
| 1:42.8 | said from the very beginning that she was killed by an Israeli soldier, |
| 1:47.2 | but the Israeli military presented a series of false stories saying that she might have been accidentally killed by Palestinian gunmen. |
| 1:59.7 | Not true. |
| 2:00.8 | They said that she might have been killed in Crossfire. |
| 2:03.8 | Also not true. |
| 2:05.3 | In the video footage, it's daylight. |
| 2:07.7 | Shereen is wearing her helmet and blue flak jacket, |
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