Happy Birthday Shireen Abu Akleh
Your legacy lives forever. You will be avenged. Your Palestine will be free.
[image description: two photos of palestinian-american journalist shireen abu akleh. in the first, she is wearing a blue press vest while standing outside somewhere with grass behind her and smoke rising in the air. in the second, she is inside holding a white frosted cake that that says "press" with a blue background and her name in silver, along with a microphone made of frosting.]
Shireen Abu Akleh (1971 â 2022) was a prominent Palestinian-American journalist who worked as a reporter for 25 years for Al Jazeera, before she was killed by an Israeli soldier while wearing a blue press vest and covering a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The IOF deliberately shot at her and murdered her on May 11, 2022, after which they repeatedly denied it being an intentional attack and refused to launch a criminal investigation. During her funeral, israeli police attacked pallbearers with batons and stun grenades as well as invaded the hospital in which the funeral was held, attacking and wounding patients and medical workers.
Abu Aklehâs funeral was attended by tens of thousands of people, thought to be the largest Palestinian funeral in Jerusalem for over two decades.
On October 28, 2023, an iof bulldozer destroyed the memorial for Abu Akleh in Jenin as well as razed the entire street where she was fatally shot.
