A year after the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, the killers remain free, shielded by a broken international judicial system. But a light can be glimpsed in those who carry forward Shireen’s memory.
The world lost Khader Adnan after 86 days of hunger strike, and Palestine lost an icon. Yet, in the words of activist Ashira Darwish, “Freedom means that he left the body that they destroyed.”
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The twin Israeli offensives on Palestinians in Jerusalem during Ramadan and Easter made one thing clear: the war to assert the Zionist presence over the city has entered a new phase.
It is very frightening when some Western media completely become political tools. This makes the media lose their factual basis and scale, giving way to political positions.