The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
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🗓️ 14 June 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Last month, Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed while reporting on an Israeli military raid of a Palestinian refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. Multiple media investigations say the evidence suggests Abu Akleh was killed by targeted Israeli fire, not stray bullets from a chaotic skirmish. Meanwhile, the U.S. has called for an impartial investigation into Abu Akleh’s death, but has stopped short of leading such a probe.
Guest: Dalia Hatuqa, a journalist specializing in Israeli/Palestinian affairs and regional Middle East issues.
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| 0:37.6 | When Dahlia Hattuka was a little girl, she thought she knew who Shireen Abu Akla was. |
| 0:43.9 | Most of her because Shireen was on TV all the time, reporting for Al Jazeera. Dahlia grew up in the |
| 0:49.0 | Palestinian city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Night after night, Dahlia would click on |
| 0:54.3 | the news and their Shireen would be. Like I think every maybe almost every single like Arab person |
| 1:02.0 | or person from the Middle East like grew up watching her for decades. |
| 1:09.2 | It just felt like every girl wanted to be her. For most Arabs, Palestine is not some place |
| 1:17.8 | that's accessible. Like Jerusalem and the dome of the rock and al-Upsam mosque. These places aren't |
| 1:25.3 | accessible but people love these places. They're important to them like whether they're Muslim or |
| 1:30.9 | Christian or or anything. And so Shireen kind of brought Palestine to everybody's home. She kind |
| 1:39.1 | of filled their living rooms with all these stories and helped them be in Palestine so to speak. |
| 1:45.2 | Dahlia says the Shireen she grew up with, the on-camera Shireen, was empathetic but serious. |
| 1:52.6 | Cool. Collected. And so as soon as I met her I was like oh wow no this girl is totally different. |
| 2:00.6 | She surprised you. Oh definitely. They met in Al Jazeera's DC bureau. After watching Shireen |
| 2:07.5 | on TV for so many years Dahlia had become a journalist herself. She wasn't a diva even though she |
| 2:14.4 | was a media darling if that makes sense. She's always laughing. Her laughter is infectious. |
| 2:22.2 | Very much different from her demeanor on camera. Can you give me an example? Like as |
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