November 18th, 20220The U.S. Department of Justice has decided to investigate the killing of renowned Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, with Israel saying it does not plan to cooperate.
The investigation by the FBI comes after months of pressure from rights groups, Democrats and Abu Akleh’s family on the Biden administration to push...
July 27th, 20220The family of slain Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh met U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday to demand justice for the killing of the Al Jazeera reporter during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank.
U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price told a regular news briefing that Blinken was meeting...
June 17th, 20220PALESTINE — A photo of the bullet that killed renowned Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh has been recovered by the news agency she long worked for.
Al Jazeera said Thursday it had obtained an image of the bullet used to kill the veteran journalist in the occupied West Bank last month while covering an Israeli...
June 17th, 20220WASHINGTON, D.C. — The White House confirmed dates and some details on President Biden’s July trip to the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia and Israel, amid concerns over the human rights records of both countries.
Human rights advocates are critical of Biden’s July 13-16 trip, which will include a meeting with the...
May 13th, 20220This report was originally published by members of Al Jazeera's staff, whose colleague Shireen Abu Akleh was killed last Wednesday by Israeli occupation forces while she was covering a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. It has been edited for style
Shireen Abu Akleh, the Palestinian Al Jazeera journalist killed...
May 12th, 20220OCCUPIED WEST BANK — Israel drew international condemnation over its forces' targeted killing of prominent Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
The 51-year-old Palestinian journalist had been with the news organization since 1997 and had covered numerous notable events in the region, like the Second Intifada between the...
September 17th, 20210An alarming discovery that the Israeli spyware company NSO Group targeted an ordinary citizen’s iPhone yet again caused Apple to deliver an important security update to its users.
Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab said a security issue in Apple’s software was exploited to plant spyware on a Saudi...
May 15th, 20210GAZA — Israel pounded Gaza, destroying a tower block that housed the AP and Al Jazeera news organizations, and which it said had militant assets, with no sign of an end to almost a week of bombardment from Israel that has killed more than 130 Palestinians in Gaza.
The death toll is rising from the worst escalation since 2014 and...
August 4th, 20200BEIRUT — A huge explosion in Beirut has caused at least 78 deaths and 4,000 injuries. The explosion sent a shockwave across the Lebanese capital, creating massive destruction, shattering windows and collapsing apartment balconies.
Social media became flooded with videos and photos from eyewitnesses on the ground soon after the...
June 22nd, 20180WASHINGTON — A pro-Israel businessman doing public relations work for Qatar donated $100,000 to the Zionist Organization of America out of money Qatar paid him to “invest” in “community engagement.”
Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, told the Jewish Insider on Wednesday that he had been under...
June 8th, 20170DOHA ― Pan-Arab satellite network Al Jazeera is combating a large-scale cyber attack but all its entities remained operational, a company source told Reuters on Thursday.
"There were attempts made on the cyber security of Al Jazeera but we are combating them and currently all our entities are operational," said a senior employee who...
