Against all odds: Surviving through culture in post-Nakba Palestine
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Nakba is Arabic for “catastrophe” and refers to the 1948 dispossession and displacement of nearly 750,000 Palestinians in the wake of Israel’s inception.
Israeli police brutally attack funeral procession carrying Shireen Abu Akleh body

Israel has limited the number of people able to participate in the funeral itself to 50 and banned the raising of the Palestinian flag as well as chants, threatening to disperse mourners if these demands aren’t met.
Israeli forces fired at Palestinians attempting to rescue journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, footage shows

In footage from the scene of Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder, one man can be heard desperately calling out, ‘Shireen, Shireen’ and urging someone to bring her to safety, after Israeli forces shot her in the head.