The extrajudicial killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by an Israeli sniper last week has led to Israel’s media clamouring for the occupation state’s impunity to be upheld. Abu Akleh was covering an Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp on Wednesday this week, when she was shot and killed, despite identifying herself as a member of the press. Eyewitnesses make clear that an Israeli soldier was the killer. “It was an Israeli sniper who shot at us,” they pointed out. “We were not caught up in crossfire with Palestinian fighters like the Israeli army has claimed.” If Abu Akleh was not a dual national, her killing would have already become simply yet another statistic. As a Palestinian-American, however, … Continue reading Israel’s impunity and security narrative take priority over extrajudicial killings