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“They shoot Ali. Then they shoot Shireen. And then they’re still shooting at me.” That’s how journalist Shatha Hanaysha remembers that horrible moment back in May, captured on video taken just after Israeli forces had shot and killed her colleague, Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh.
