Shireen Abu Akleh

Palestinians hold a mass for the late journalist Shireen Abu Akleh at the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Beit Hanina, occupied East Jerusalem, May 7, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

Shireen could have been any one of us

Shireen’s killing has channeled endless energy into the hearts of Palestinian journalists, leaving us more determined to expose the atrocities of occupation.

By Vera Sajrawi May 11, 2023

Khader Adnan seen with his family in the West Bank town of Arraba, August 12, 2015. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Why we Palestinians see ourselves in Khader Adnan

Those trying to undermine public anger over the hunger striker's death don't want to talk about the violent carceral regime that he struggled against.

By Amjad Iraqi May 5, 2023

Berlin police observe a Palestinian protest in Berlin, April 11, 2023. (Courtesy Samidoun)

‘Everyone should be alarmed’: Berlin police ban Palestinian demo for prisoners

A year after police in the German capital banned all Nakba Day protests, Palestinian activists have again been barred from assembling.

By Hebh Jamal May 4, 2023

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Palestinians hold a vigil in memory of Shireen Abu Akleh in Gaza City, May 11, 2022. (Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills)

What 2022 taught Palestinians

The past year proved that Israel's impunity on the international stage knows no bounds. But looking ahead to 2023, there are still reasons to be hopeful.

By George Zeidan January 1, 2023

Prisoners inside St. Joseph’s schoolyard during the Israeli army’s invasion and occupation of Sidon, in southern Lebanon, June 1982. (Alain Mingam/Gamma, courtesy of Nurit Kedar)

Confession without consequence

A film about a 1982 war crime in Lebanon shows Israeli soldiers are more open to divulging their violent actions. But their search for exoneration without accountability says much about Israeli society's moral decay.

By Seth Anziska July 26, 2022

U.S. President Joe Biden boarding Air Force One after a farewell ceremony in his honor at Ben Gurion Airport, July 15, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

To replace US hegemony, Biden blesses a marriage of apartheid and autocracy

Israeli-Saudi normalization is at the crux of a new regional order, speaking the language of ‘peace’ at the price of people like Khashoggi and Abu Akleh.

By Iyad el-Baghdadi July 20, 2022

U.S. president Joe Biden during a welcoming ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv for his first official visit to Israel since becoming president, July 13, 2022. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

The trip Biden should have taken, but didn’t

What would the president's itinerary look like if he decided to meet with Palestinians, including U.S. citizens, targeted by Israel's policies?

By Rina Rosenberg (Jabareen) July 14, 2022

Graffiti of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on the separation wall, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, July 6, 2022. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Israel killed her aunt. Now Lina Abu Akleh is demanding Biden take action

In an interview on the eve of Biden's visit to the region, Shireen Abu Akleh's niece lays out her family's demands for justice and accountability.

By Yuval Abraham July 12, 2022

Israeli soldiers aim their weapons at Palestinian protesters, Qalandiya checkpoint, West Bank, July 23, 2017. (Oren Ziv)

An Israeli bullet killed Shireen. Denial is the army’s time-tested strategy

Israel's attempts to deny responsibility for Abu Akleh's death is part of its long-standing policy of obfuscating investigations into Palestinian killings.

By Sebastian Ben Daniel (John Brown) July 5, 2022

The German passports of Ibrahim al Kilani and four of his children, seen in their home in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, September 18, 2014. Ibrahim was killed together with his wife Taghrid and their five children in an Israeli attack on July 21, 2014, targetting the building where they took refuge in Gaza City. (Anne Paq/Activestills)

Israel wiped out a Palestinian-German family. Germany refuses to investigate

Germany refuses to probe Israel's killing of seven members of the Kilani family in the 2014 Gaza war, despite five of them having their German citizenship.

By Hebh Jamal June 22, 2022

Israeli police attack the funeral of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh at Saint Joseph Hospital in Jerusalem, May 13, 2022. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

When hospitals become battlefields

The police attack on a Jerusalem hospital during Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral is emblematic of Israel's violent disregard for Palestinian health centers.

By Osama Tanous and Ghada Majadli June 7, 2022

Israeli Jewish extremists chant racist and violent slogans against Palestinians during the Flag March on Jerusalem Day, May 29, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

WATCH: Jewish supremacists chant ‘Death to Arabs’ during Flag March

Far-right Israelis attacked Palestinian shop owners, journalists, and onlookers as they chanted genocidal slogans while marching through Jerusalem.

By Oren Ziv May 30, 2022

Nooran Alhamdan, along with other students at Georgetown University, hold up photos of slain Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to protest U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's commencement speech at their graduation ceremony, May 21, 2022. (Kannithi Traitonwong)

Blinken congratulated me on graduating. I confronted him about Shireen Abu Akleh

When we heard the U.S. state secretary would be at our ceremony, we decided to protest for a murdered Palestinian journalist. Here’s what happened.

By Nooran Alhamdan May 27, 2022