{"id":1090335,"date":"2022-05-17T14:37:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T14:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/17\/palestine-welcomes-broad-international-condemnation-of-killing-of-al-jazeera-journalist-ambassador\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T14:37:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T14:37:37","slug":"palestine-welcomes-broad-international-condemnation-of-killing-of-al-jazeera-journalist-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/17\/palestine-welcomes-broad-international-condemnation-of-killing-of-al-jazeera-journalist-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine welcomes broad international condemnation of killing of Al Jazeera Journalist\u202f\u2013 Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Accra, May 17, GNA – The Embassy of the State of Palestine to Ghana\u202fsays it\u202fwelcomes\u202fthe broad international condemnation of the killing of Aljazeera Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh\u202fand demanding that Israel be\u202fheld responsible.<\/p>\n
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\u202fThe Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates\u202fsaid, \u201cdespite the live testimonies and the evidence documented by audio and video that proved that Israeli forces committed the crime of executing the martyr Abu Akleh, the Occupying State (Israel) continued its disinformation campaign.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u202f It claimed :\u202f\u201cThe\u202fIsraeli\u202foccupation was spreading lies and fabrications with the aim of absorbing wide official and popular reactions to the crime, especially whenever it notices\u202fwide international reactions\u201d\u202fto the act.<\/div>\n
Israeli forces\u202fare suspected to have\u202fshot dead Al\u202fJazeera\u2019s journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian\u202fHealth\u202fMinistry.<\/div>\n
Abu Akleh, a longtime TV correspondent for Al Jazeera Arabic, was killed on Wednesday while covering Israeli army raids in the city of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank.\u202f<\/div>\n
She was rushed to a hospital in Jenin in critical condition, where she was declared dead shortly after, at 7:15am (4:15 GMT), the Palestinian\u202fHealth\u202fMinistry\u202fsaid.<\/div>\n
\u202f Abu Akleh was wearing a press vest and was standing with other journalists when she was killed.<\/div>\n
Another Al Jazeera journalist, Ali al-Samoudi, was also wounded by a bullet in the back at the scene.<\/div>\n
\u202f Israeli riot police\u202fat the funeral of the slain journalist\u202fpushed and beat pallbearers, causing them to briefly drop the casket in a shocking start to a procession that turned into perhaps the largest display of Palestinian nationalism in Jerusalem.<\/div>\n
\u202f Mr Abdulfatah A. K. Alsattari, Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Ghana, while narrating circumstances leading to the killing of the Aljazeera Journalist at a media briefing on Monday said, it was absurd for some persons to conceive the thought that Palestinians killed their own.<\/div>\n
\u202f He said an investigation by Israel, however, transparent, would not be acceptable as thousands of such cases had gone uninvestigated or improperly done, and, therefore, called for an impartial and independent investigation by the International Community.<\/div>\n
\u202f The Ambassador condemned attacks on pallbearers and others during the funeral of the journalist, describing it as \u201cterrible\u201d.<\/div>\n
\u202fHe said, \u201cthey were afraid of her when she was alive, they must still be afraid of her even in death, and perhaps the over 40,000 people \u2013 Muslims and Christians – who showed up at the funeral.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u202f \u201cShereen lived in our heart; we saw her on the TV every night when she reported, \u201d he said in a doleful voice.<\/div>\n
\u202f Mr\u202fBenjamin Kumbuor, former Minister for Defence, who knew the slain journalist and had met her on three separate occasions, attending a Catholic Service together in Ghana, said \u201cI got attracted to her because of her deep insight in international law\u2026\u201d<\/div>\n
\u202f \u201cThere is one statement she made in one of our interactions which has been puzzling me since news of her death broke \u2013 If you do not fight impunity from a distance, you should not be surprised to find impunity on your door steps the next day,\u201d he said, adding that in her quest to fight impunity, she had to pay the highest price for it.<\/div>\n
\u202f Mr Kumbuor said for those who encountered her, they had lost an internationalist, a comrade and someone who had a human feeling for all struggling and oppressed people of the world.\u202f<\/div>\n
\u202f Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Member of Parliament for North Tongu and Ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said\u202fShireen Abu Akleh\u2019s journalistic work was admirable as she showed respect for fact, tremendous courage and distinguished herself in war reporting \u2013 an area otherwise perceived as preserve for male journalist.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Accra, May 17, GNA – The Embassy of the State of Palestine to Ghana\u202fsays it\u202fwelcomes\u202fthe broad international condemnation of the killing of Aljazeera Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh\u202fand demanding that Israel be\u202fheld responsible. \u202fThe Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates\u202fsaid, \u201cdespite the live testimonies and the evidence documented by audio and video that proved that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1090337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[535,10077,13903,2444,13119,2106,7105,13904,3137],"class_list":["post-1090335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-ambassador","tag-broad","tag-condemnation","tag-international","tag-jazeera","tag-journalist","tag-killing","tag-palestine","tag-welcomes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}