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UK singer pays tribute to slain reporter Shireen Abu Akleh during concert
English rock musician Roger Waters, best famous as bass player, co-lead vocalist, lyricist and principal songwriter in the rock band Pink Floyd, in last days paid a tribute to Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during festival in New York.
The 78-year-old songwriter and composer and ex member of the English rock band Pink Floyd displayed Abu Akleh’s name across the concert’s backdrop along with words saying that her crime was “being Palestinian” and that her punishment was “death.”
On May 11, while covering an Israeli forces assault in the northern occupied West Bank refugee camp of Jenin, Abu Akleh, 51, a Palestinian-American journalist from Jerusalem, who worked for al-Jazeera for over 25 years, covering the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, was killed by a bullet to the head fired by an Israeli sniper.
Palestinians last week in all over the world marked 100 days since Abu Akleh’s killing
Waters has been vocally advocating for Palestinians and their rights and every body know him for his support for the BDS movement.
