[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Her camera was a weapon???
Robert Naiman
naiman.uiuc at gmail.com
Wed May 11 21:05:54 UTC 2022
Let's see if we can get Dick Durbin to say and do something about this.
Every time we talk to a Congressional office about this, we should
emphasize the fact that she was a U.S. citizen.
Durbin's DC office: 202.224.2152
Chicago office: 312.353.4952
Springfield office: 217.492.4062
On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 2:49 PM Mildred O'brien via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> To J. B. Nicholson at peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net
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> Encl. suggestion for discussion on Neptune. Sad...
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> Midge O'Brien
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> Subject: Her camera was a weapon???
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> Demand justice for Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, shot
> dead by the Israeli military. today
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> Demand justice for Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, shot
> dead by the Israeli military.
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> Dear Midge,
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> *51-year-old Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
> was covering an Israeli military raid in the Jenin refugee camp this
> morning when soldiers shot her in the face and killed her.* Both her blue
> protective vest and her helmet were clearly marked “PRESS.”
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> *Demand the U.S. State Department conduct a thorough investigation and the
> immediate suspension of U.S. military aid.*
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> In a video showing the aftermath of Shireen being shot, a man can be heard
> yelling, *“Injured! Shireen, Shireen, oh man, Shireen! Ambulance!”* Al
> Jazeera journalist Shatha Hanaysha, also wearing a helmet and vest marked
> as press, can be seen crouching down trying to reach Shireen but being
> forced back by Israeli gunfire. *The soldiers “did not stop firing even
> after she collapsed,”* Hanaysha said. “I couldn’t even extend my arm to
> pull her because of the shots. *The army was adamant on shooting to
> kill.”*
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> Following their killing of Shireen, the Israeli military took to Twitter
> to announce that they were investigating the possibility that Shireen had
> been killed “by Palestinian armed gunfire.” The Israeli Foreign Ministry
> offered to conduct a joint investigation with the Palestinian Authority and
> Israeli military spokesperson Kochav Ran on Army radio accused her and her
> colleagues of being *“ armed with cameras.”*
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> “I encourage a thorough investigation into the circumstances of her death
> and the injury of at least one other journalist today in Jenin,” tweeted
> U.S. Ambassador Tom Nides. But, he didn’t specify that Israel must not be
> allowed to investigate and exonerate itself as has happened far too many
> times.
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> *Call on the U.S. State Department to require a full investigation — not
> by Israel — into the grotesque and blatant murder of Shireen **Abu Akleh.*
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> The U.S. must immediately suspend military aid to Israel pending the
> investigation.
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> Unfortunately, there's more. As the Palestinian people and advocacy
> community were mourning Shireen’s death, Israeli police descended upon
> Shireen’s family home where they confiscated the Palestinian flags flying
> outside. Elsewhere this morning, Israeli bulldozers started to forcibly
> displace the Masafer Yatta Palestinian villages in the South Hebron hills.
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> The Biden administration has repeatedly said that it is committed to
> equal measures of freedom, security, dignity, and prosperity for
> Palestinians and Israelis. But, in the words of author and activist Grace
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