What Next - The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
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🗓️ 14 June 2022
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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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| 0:07.0 | It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like it was so it was all wrapped up |
| 0:12.7 | but it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and had a little ribbon on it |
| 0:16.4 | and I was so guest. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now |
| 0:21.6 | so for that one change me a little. |
| 0:23.8 | Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks. |
| 0:37.1 | When Dalia Hattuka was a little girl she thought she knew who Shireen Abu Akla was. |
| 0:43.4 | Most of the because Shireen was on TV all the time reporting for Al Jazeera. |
| 0:47.7 | Dalia grew up in the Palestinian city of Ramallah and the occupied West Bank. |
| 0:52.0 | Night after night Dalia would click on the news and their Shireen would be. |
| 0:56.8 | Like I think every maybe almost every single like Arab person or person from the Middle East |
| 1:03.0 | like grew up watching her for decades. |
| 1:08.8 | It just felt like every girl wanted to be her. |
| 1:12.3 | For most Arabs Palestine is not some place that's accessible you know like Jerusalem |
| 1:20.0 | and the dome of the rock and al-Upsam mosque. |
| 1:23.5 | These places aren't accessible but people love these places they're important to them like whether |
| 1:29.6 | they're Muslim or Christian or or anything and so Shireen kind of brought Palestine to everybody's |
| 1:36.8 | home. She kind of filled their living rooms with all these stories and and helped them be in Palestine |
| 1:44.0 | so to speak. Dalia says the Shireen she grew up with the on camera Shireen. |
| 1:49.9 | She was empathetic but serious. |
| 1:52.7 | Cool. |
| 1:53.5 | Collected. |
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