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Last report for Shireen Abu Akleh to mark Nakba before 2 days of her murder
Shireen Abu Akleh’s final report for Al Jazeera, organized for the 74th anniversary of the Nakba, was shared on Sunday by the Qatar-based network, days after her killing by Israeli forces while documenting from the Palestinian city of Jenin.
“Our late colleague Shireen Abu Akleh prepared this report to commemorate the Nakba two days before her assassination by Israeli occupying forces,” Al Jazeera reported via Twitter in Arabic. “She did not know it would be her last.”
Shireen Abu Akleh, a dual US-Palestinian resident, from Jerusalem, was a trailblazing female journalist in the Middle East. She reported from the occupied Palestinian territories for Al Jazeera for over 25 years, covering both Intifadas. Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli forces on May 11 while covering an Israeli raid on Jenin.
Her last work, which was filmed two days before her execution, was scheduled to air for the 74th anniversary of the Nakba on May 15.
The word Nakba, meaning “catastrophe” in Arabic, directs to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Israeli militias that accompanied the birth of Israel in 1948.
On 15 May each year, Nakba Day marks the 750,000 Palestinians expelled with the Israeli state’s 1948 creation and those facing forced eviction today.
Shireen Abu Akleh’s 3-minute report features a report with a survivor of the Nakba and locations filmed in the ruins of his Palestinian village, on whose ruins a forest now rises.
The video ends with a reminder that Israeli attempts to divest Palestinians and expel them forcibly are ongoing. In Masafer Yatta, an area near the West Bank’s Hebron city, At least 1,000 Palestinians now face eviction following an Israeli Supreme Court decision earlier this month.
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