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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Rummana Hussain

Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh shot to death by Israeli forces, colleagues and witnesses said. Then the spin started.

An American journalist was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin last week, according to her wounded colleague and several eyewitnesses and other reporters who were with her on the outskirts of a Palestinian refugee camp.

The victim wasn’t felled by the Russians or ISIS. And she was an Al Jazeera Arabic television correspondent of Palestinian descent, so her death barely made the local news. Nothing to see here, folks, move along — only a “camel jockey” gunned down while doing her job with a glaringly visible “PRESS” vest and helmet on.

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