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Published date: 8 July 2022 13:05 UTC | Last update:1 day 17 mins ago
Shireen Abu Akleh painting to confront Biden
Any US wish to sweep the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh under the carpet will be unsuccessful next week when Joe Biden travels to Palestine and is set to be met by a huge painting of the Al Jazeera journalist, pan-Arab daily al-Araby al-Jadeed reports.
The image of Palestinian-American Abu Akleh, who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers on 11 May as she covered a raid on Jenin, has been painted on Israel’s separation wall near Bethlehem.
Biden, whose administration concluded in a report that the bullet likely came from Israeli positions but who has been accused of covering for Israel over the killing, will visit Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank on 15 July to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Artist Taqi al-Din Sabateen said the image was an attempt to convey Palestinian anger, and was painted in a location that Biden could not miss. The Palestinian artist replaced the word “press” on Abu Akleh’s body armour with “justice”.
“When Biden enters Bethlehem from Jerusalem, the first thing he sees will be this wall painting,” Sabateen said. “The wall painting is an expression of our rejection of the American position on the issue of the assassination of Abu Akleh, and a condemnation of the American report”.
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