Shireen Abu Akleh–the space between witness and erasure – Mondoweiss

Palestinians paint a mural of veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh near the site where she was killed in Jenin while covering an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank, on May 14, 2022. (Photo: Ahmed Ibrahim/APA Images)

Shireen Abu Akleh–the space between witness and erasure

Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing exemplifies the inextricable tangling of witness and attempted erasure—of martyrdom in the wholest sense—in occupied Palestine.