And the Israeli army admitted in September that there was a “high possibility” that one of its soldiers shot Abu Aqelah after he mistook her for one of the gunmen, but the Hebrew state announced that it would not cooperate with any foreign investigation.
On Thursday, the Palestinian Authority laid the foundation stone for a museum honoring journalist Sherine Abu Aqleh, on the first anniversary of her death while covering an Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank.
Abu Aqleh (51 years old at the time), a journalist for the Qatari Al-Jazeera channel, was killed on May 11, 2022 as a result of her gunshot wounds while she was covering an Israeli military operation in the Jenin Palestinian refugee camp in the northern West Bank occupied by Israel since 1967.
And the Israeli army admitted in September that there was a “high possibility” that one of its soldiers shot Abu Aqelah after he mistook her for one of the gunmen, but the Hebrew state announced that it would not cooperate with any foreign investigation.
Abu Aqelah’s brother, Anton, said during the foundation stone-laying ceremony that the museum in Ramallah “will be a continuity for future generations to communicate the image of truth and the image of suffering for years to come.”
He continued, “An entire generation has grown up listening to Sherine covering the suffering of the Palestinian people with this occupation, and Sherine worked in all regions of Palestine, in her homes, villages, and all its cities, covering our suffering.”
And funded the construction of the “Sherine Abu Aqleh Media Museum,” the channel’s management, on a piece of land provided by the Ramallah municipality, and it will be transferred to it when the office of the late woman is completed, as it was in the offices of “Al-Jazeera” in the Palestinian territories.
For his part, Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said, “Today we unveiled the curtain on this project to be the Sherine Abu Aqelah Media Museum,” adding that the late “enter every Palestinian and every Arab house, and every house in the world.”
Several Palestinian regions witnessed the commemoration of the anniversary of the killing of Abu Aqleh.
Many Palestinians gathered at the site of her death, where her pictures and wreaths of roses were hung near a plaque that read, “Here the word triumphed over bullets, here the occupation assassinated itself with the body of Sherine Abu Aqelah.”
Thaer Daoud, who came from the city of Qalqilya, said that Abu Aqelah “has become a symbol of the Palestinian struggle, and her sacrifice is no less than that of any Palestinian fighter.”
“Everyone bears witness to what she sacrificed for the sake of Palestine,” he added.
