Ballistics expert Nahum Shahaf says that Shireen Abu Akleh didn’t fall at the hands of the IDF
When the shaky video footage emerged of the death of a journalist in Jenin, most Israelis steeled themselves for another media onslaught, but Nahum Shahaf prepared to do battle.
It was May 11, 2022, and Israel was enduring its worst terror wave in years; between March and May, 20 Israelis had been killed in small-scale attacks from Beersheva to Bnei Brak and Elad.
By early May, Jenin — long a terror lair — was once again in Israeli security forces’ sights.
Wearing a ballistic helmet and blue bulletproof vest marked “press,” Shireen Abu Akleh — a Palestinian-American who was a quarter-century veteran of Al-Jazeera — prepared to enter the city in the northern West Bank.
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